(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to Edible, Elderberry, Eminently, The on 2007-04-04, 20:00:00

Raise your hands. How many of you celebrate the summer solstice by making elder flower fritters? No? How about making elderberry wine from the dark purple fruits that follow? Never? Have you ever seen an elderberry bush? Okay, let's start there.

(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to An, Beneath, Canopy, Edible on 2006-07-19, 20:00:00

The long, rustic table is laden with platters of vegetables, grilled fish, crusty bread, good wine. Mama and Papa (that's me and Eliot) smile beneficently as three generations feast on the garden's bounty, with babies crawling and toddlers toddling on the patio stones at our feet. Every now and then someone reaches up and plucks a bunch of ripe grapes from the vines on the arbor above.