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There is little more satisfying that creating a salad using freshly
harvested lettuce. This is a red butterhead called Edox.
Mashed Potatoes is a light-coloured acorn squash with white flesh that, cooked and fluffed, is an interesting alternative to potatoes similarly prepared. Helen Chesnut
Wait until after they have bloomed to prune lilac and other late-spring flowering shrubs. Helen Chesnut photos I’m not much given to navel- gazing angst, but I must admit that the bout of cold, snowy weather last month reminded me how much I rely on time in the garden to maintain a sense of mental and physical well-being.
Since ancient times, people have sought to inject light, and hope, into the bleak midwinter with fire and light. Evergreen boughs were brought into dwellings as reminders that life continues, and would return to the Earth again as the sun began a rising trajectory toward spring. Berried boughs had particular importance. They bore the seeds of life. We continue these traditions today. They are especially welcome this winter, as the darkness outdoors is overlaid with uncertainty and stress. Still, we defy it all. Coloured lights have been put up early. Trees can be seen lit up in the windows of houses we pass by.