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Food of the Moment: Kale

By Ang Jordan | Published: December 9, 2011
Kale has had a high media profile lately because of the Eat More Kale debacle, and it has also been touted as a superfood, made its way onto restaurant menus and been packaged as a healthy alternative to chips. See NPR’s excellent food blog The Salt for links to more information about kale. For the [...]
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The Farmers Market May Be Closed, but the Growing Season Continues

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 21, 2011
Although the fall farmers market in downtown Mobile has come to its close, there are still local farmers with plenty of crops in the field. If you’re willing to drive and you have the time, you can go directly to the farm and find u-pick or prepicked produce. Here are two that are worth checking [...]
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Will Your Plants Survive?

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 12, 2010
If you haven’t been protecting your plants by this point, the horse has long escaped the barn. But if you have, or you haven’t and you’re curious to see what might leaf out again come spring, read Bill Finch’s Winter Survival Guide. PROBABLY WILL MAKE IT: figs, mature satsumas, collards, kale, kohlrabi, garlic IFFY/PLANTS NEED [...]
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