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If you grow them in your garden, crisp and delicious sugar snap peas might never make it to your dinner table because they’re so delicious fresh-picked! But if you get a bunch home, let’s talk about how to use those sugar snaps! Seasonal Availability: June into July is the most common harvest time for sugarRead more

Seasonal Availability: Raspberries are often harvested throughout the summer in Wisconsin, with both summer-bearing and fall-bearing cultivars available. Raspberries are technically not a berry, but aggregate brambles, a collection of little fruits around a hollow center. Health Benefits: Raspberries are high in fiber, vitamin C, and manganese (a mineral that helps your body use thatRead more

If you’re like me, sometimes you get stuck in a “food rut” and skip right over vegetables that are less-familiar. Farmer’s markets are a great way to challenge yourself to try something new. If its a little white bulb topped in reddish-purple skin you’ve come home with, you’re in for a treat: let’s talk aboutRead more

Along with the sunshine and balmy weather, this week saw the arrival of many of our local farmer’s markets! Until our own grocery cooperative opens, farmer’s markets are a great way to find natural and organic foods and to support the local economy. One of the first leafy greens you might spot on those marketRead more