It’s time for the weekly report on our community supported agriculture [CSA] share. Here’s what was in our box this morning:
- Broccoli Raab
- Summer Squash
- Tomatoes
- Green beans
- Onions
- Cucumbers
- Carrots with tops
- Parsley
Meanwhile, a messy field of weeds that was growing along the northern side of our driveway a couple of days ago has become a beautiful field of wild flowers that’s attracting several butterflies who enhance the attractiveness of the blossoms. One of the advantages of being a procrastinator is that it sometimes keeps me from making horrible mistakes. The “weed field” now looks like this:
our transformed "weed field"
Photo by J. Harrington
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The picture, and the flowers, remind me of the paintings in our copy of American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide. As I recall, some of the a field guide entries include recipes for wildflowers good enough to eat. I wondered if anyone had focused a field guide on edible wildflowers when I remembered we used to have a copy of Euell Gibbons' Stalking the Wild Asparagus. A quick online search revealed the existence of several more recent volumes of a similar nature but they also cover wild plants rather than primarily wildflowers. This may be fun to explore some rainy day (or next winter).
Wildflowers
Coleridge carefully wrote down a whole pageof them, all beginning with the letter b.Guidebooks preserve our knowledgeof their hues and shapes, their breeding.Many poems have made delicate word-chimes—like wind-chimes not for wind but for the breath of man—out of their lovely names.At the edge of the prairie in a cabinwhen thunder comes closer to thump the roof harda few of them—in a corner, brittle in a dry jarwhere a woman’s thoughtful hand left them to fade—seem to blow with the announcing winds outsideas the rain begins to fall on all their supple kinof all colors, under a sky of one color, or none.
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