This week, I’ve been thinking about pears. Mmmm. Pears… Pears? I can almost see your furrowed brows. Why pears? you may be wondering and well you might. Apples are, after all, the glory of Albemarle County. We have our own heirloom variety—the tiny, tart Albemarle Pippin—not to mention apple festivals and fall pressings and, my personal favorite, …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
First snow 2009
The knockout rose–gift from my baby–has been blooming like a champion, setting new buds every few days even into December. And it looks so pretty in the snow. So do these hips on the Champney’s pink that drapes over the back deck. And this lovely Bourbon, wearing its coat of fluffy white. It’ll be warm tomorrow. …
“a food chain that’s not cruel”
For the last month of Saturdays I’ve been “working” the Charlottesville City Market. Mmmmm, City Market… Now, those of us who love Charlottesville have long known about the Charlottesville City Market. And what we know surer than celery with our Buffalo wings is that the CCM is no longer the city’s best-kept secret. In high …
Kitchen Propagation, or, The Diary of a Mad Horticulturist
In the nearly six months that I’ve been dating “farm boy”–also known as “Marc”–my friends have come to realize that the whole “farm boy” appellation has been, basically, one of my little jokes. (Actually, a tall joke–the boy’s at least six-four.) Marc is, more properly speaking, a horticulturist (I get corrected when I say “horticulturalist.” …
