Valley Bounty: Corn
The United States produces more corn than any other nation on the planet, growing well over 300 million tons of corn annually (close to a[...]
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Valley Bounty: Tomatoes
Few foods besides the tomato can claim the distinction of having been at the center of a Supreme Court decision; in the 1893 case Nix[...]
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Valley Bounty: Cherries
Though there are cherries that are native to North America (Prunus serotine, also known as “wild cherry” or “black cherry”), the kinds we are most[...]
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Valley Bounty: Gooseberries
They don’t honk as far as I can tell, and I’ve never seen any flying in a “V” formation. How exactly gooseberries wound up with[...]
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Valley Bounty: Raspberries
We can all remember “blowing raspberries” from our childhoods I’m sure, or perhaps for some of us more recently than that. It’s the faux-flatulent noise[...]
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Valley Bounty: Snap Peas
Relative to much of the other produce we’re accustomed to seeing at the farmers’ market or in our farm share, sugar snap peas, or simply[...]
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Valley Bounty: Cucumbers
In his travel journal of the Scottish highlands, 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson declared that, “[i]t has been a common saying of physicians in[...]
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Valley Bounty: Cilantro
The fruit of the coriander plant (though we often call them “coriander seeds”, they are actually fruit, botanically speaking) have a long history in human[...]
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Valley Bounty: Strawberries
Strawberries, despite the name and their location in most grocery stores, are technically not berries. They are botanically considered “accessory fruit”; unlike “true” berries, which[...]
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Valley Bounty: Radishes
The peppery, slightly-pungent flavor most of us associate with brightly-colored spring radishes is provided by a compound called allyl isothiocyanate, which is also found in[...]
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Valley Bounty: Chives
What is a chive, anyway? Is it an herb, or… a vegetable, maybe? They’re herbs, it turns out. I don’t think I’ve ever really given[...]
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Valley Bounty: Asparagus
Somehow, at the end of a seemingly interminable winter, we have cycled around again to asparagus season. If you had told me anytime before the[...]
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