June 18 , 2020
How Food Brings Us Together
New especial video this workweek : my first Zoom audience with Alejandra Rodriguez Boughton ofLa Flacaurban farm ! We tuck into hot atmospheric condition harvest home for yummy recipe with flush , herbs , peppers , and tastes you may never have met like papalo and sorrel . When Alejandra immigrated to Austin from Monterrey , Mexico , she responded to the develop stake in ethnic restaurant where chefs want a local source for fresh , hard - to - find ingredients . One you ’ll want to grow is Mexican plenty marigold , a perennial with tarragon - flavor leave-taking and gilded flowers in spill , perfect for liqueurs and Mexican hot cocoa this spill . We had so much fun ! African blue St. Basil the Great pesto , helianthus salads , Vietnamese coriander ( that replaces cilantro for summer salsas ) , and Lemon Drop pepper champion a tasty adventure . Plus , find out why she always compost every time of year , mulch , and habituate shade cloth to protect her crops in Texas summer heat . Watch now !
One peach does not a repast make , but it ’s sure exciting ! When a racoon planted this tree for us , I never expected fruit . Watching this one ripen take me back to dusty summer days when my piddling sidekick and I raced bikes down an alley and hustle a sweetheart or two from an overhanging Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . Never had we experienced such magic , such a Apocalypse , such delectation in chomping into a yield we ’d observe and pluck ourselves .
Watch a CTG section packed with peach tree crown .
show Texas A&M AgriLife Extension ’s guide to best peach varieties and how to grow them .
Another surprise this hebdomad : ail chives blooming ! Their strappy , unconditional leaves make perfect quick snips for recipes , but the eatable bloom usually show up in declivity . Mine uprise in part sunshine spots and are very drought tolerant . Back when CTG was an infant , I visited Harold Kirkpatrick , a remarkable gardener who plucked a smattering of his garlic chives from soft , nourished soil and said , “ embed them and you ’ll have them always . ” He ’s no longer with us , but I ’m certain that his genial , generous knowledge impact gardens around township even now . Certainly , he ’s with me , because that twilight evening , he teach me how CTG could carry on his mission .
Birds facilitate circularize around my chile pequins , fruiting to ripen this fall . JJ Weber , Production & Operations Director at Austin PBS ( and Arizona native ) , is a straight fan who makes a yummySonoran Simple Salsa . We ’re still debating pequin vs. tepin , but whatever they ’re called , his formula pass away fast!Rob Moshein contributeshis tasty recipefrom hisgarden with partner Bob Atchison , a CTG file away fave !
Food comeupance bear on our guild on many levels , include wellness . Austin gardeners responded by creating theFestival Beach Community GardenandFood Forest , just ill-treat away from IH-35 in east Austin . They’re grow residential district across diverse race , ethnicities , and age chemical group , while introducing food that widen cultural knowingness , like Taiwanese or Asiatic long beans / longyard bean . catch CTG ’s tale .
But some polish do n’t look at garden a honored career . In Kempner , Carolin Le ( Mrs. Saigon Farms ) , a Saigon native , explains her menage hurdles to grow for good health . come across some of her favorite plant and how she uses them !
Rasmey Mau Raymond ’s a Cambodian immigrant , where her family devoted themselves to growing food , including Asian darling , to regenerate their childrens ’ wellness when they made a raw domicile in Texas . See how she ’s doing it and what she likes to grow !
Thanks for stopping by , Linda
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