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  • How About a Different Apple-a-Day While Local Apples Are In Season?

    As you may have noticed, we've been enjoying an apple-a-day as part of our afternoon pick-me-up snack.

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    (For more on this, see our post, Fruit Plates Are Our Favorite Afternoon Snacks.)

    With the first of the season local apples appearing at farmers markets and farm stands, we are trying to add apple varieties to our daily fare.

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    The Zestar Is New to Us

    Meet the Zestar, a relatively new early variety we picked up from Foppema's Farm at the Copley Square farmers market. The farm describes it as, "crisp, sweet, & tangy." It was a hit with Penny because she likes tart apples. Ed loves sweet, but while it was not as honeyed as he likes, he did admit it was, "… not tart enough to make you pucker."  

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    Here it is sliced and ready to eat. This variety seems to brown rather quickly so cutting it in this manner, keeping the pieces together with the cut side down on the plate, will protect the cut surfaces of the largest segments.

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    Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
    Photos: ©2017 Penny & Ed Cherubino 

  • Urban Agriculture: Community Meetings & Twitter Chat

    Urban Agriculture

    Boston is holding a series of neighborhood meetings and a Twitter Chat to talk about all aspects of Urban Agriculture. We're making the rest of this schedule of events our Friday Link.

    Here is the background information on Urban Agriculture Rezoning.

    Here's the Quick Facts Sheet

    Here's the full schedule of meetings

    The Twitter Chat is scheduled for Wednesday, June 19th, from Noon to 1pm with the hashtag #UrbanAgBOS and you can use that to review the conversation to date on the subject.

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    Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
    Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino  

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  • Urban Agriculture: Community Meetings & Twitter Chat

    Urban Agriculture

    Boston is holding a series of neighborhood meetings and a Twitter Chat to talk about all aspects of Urban Agriculture. We're making the rest of this schedule of events our Friday Link.

    Here is the background information on Urban Agriculture Rezoning.

    Here's the Quick Facts Sheet

    Here's the full schedule of meetings

    The Twitter Chat is scheduled for Wednesday, June 19th, from Noon to 1pm with the hashtag #UrbanAgBOS and you can use that to review the conversation to date on the subject.

    Do you have an Amazon Gift Certificate to use? Or do you need to buy one for a birthday or wedding gift? Remember to click over to Amazon from here to support this site!

     Details:

    Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
    Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino  

    Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.

  • Urban Agriculture: Community Meetings & Twitter Chat

    Urban Agriculture

    Boston is holding a series of neighborhood meetings and a Twitter Chat to talk about all aspects of Urban Agriculture. We're making the rest of this schedule of events our Friday Link.

    Here is the background information on Urban Agriculture Rezoning.

    Here's the Quick Facts Sheet

    Here's the full schedule of meetings

    The Twitter Chat is scheduled for Wednesday, June 19th, from Noon to 1pm with the hashtag #UrbanAgBOS and you can use that to review the conversation to date on the subject.

    Do you have an Amazon Gift Certificate to use? Or do you need to buy one for a birthday or wedding gift? Remember to click over to Amazon from here to support this site!

     Details:

    Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
    Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino  

    Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.