Northeast Gardening: Edibles - '08 - Part 3, 1 by MaypopLaurel

MaypopLaurel wrote:
Well now Sherrie, don't discount those weeds. Maybe if you boil them long enough and throw in a jalapeno or two? I think a lot of cooking, here in the mountains, is based on foraging. We definitely pick over greens that survive throughout the winter.

Now that the heat has broken, our garden is heating up for the last great gasp. Here are Christmas beans, a type of lima. We harvest them as the pods dry and use them in winter soups and stews. They are wonderful fresh, but there is so much other food coming in that can't be stored, so we save the beans. Did you ever play mancala? I grew up playing mancala with these beans.
Laurel