Lesley Stiles
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Variety of Ways to Enjoy Asparagus!
Lengthening daylight paired with rising mercury conjures exciting images of eye-popping flowers, warm-weather local produce, and scintillating scents of spring. Farmers’ markets are flush with seas...
Apr 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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It’s Time for Spring Garlic and Spring Onions
After the dry spell called February, it looks like oodles of baby buds have formed on local spring and summer fruit trees. Hopefully, all will be well with gentle spring rains, and we will reap ama...
Mar 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rejuvenate with January’s Bounty
It’s time to gear down, slowly get back into real life and savor January in the Diablo Valley. Colors start to appear on golden, parched hills and ridges, and animals start to burrow out along trai...
Jan 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Many Ways to Use Kale!
Thanksgiving is right around the corner bringing the beginning of the long holiday season. It’s also a total turning point for the local fruit and vegetable season. Chains of history dictate what g...
Nov 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Produce Overload - Not A Problem
As the dog days of summer hit and the mercury vacillates between too hot and way too hot, cooking and eating can become a wee bit of a tired out chore. At the same time, harvests across the state a...
Sep 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Art of Jam
August is the perfect month to pull out the canner and put up backyard fruits and vegetables as they cycle through another amazing harvest. Deeply buried in the past is a primitive longing that is ...
Aug 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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College Park Garden’s Abundance
As another school year draws near completion, our garden workers at College Park High School are busy getting the summer/fall garden in, while cleaning up weeds and picking abundant, gloriously sce...
Jun 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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