Re: Quiet List???/ Greens

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Bush" <genebush@otherside.com>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
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Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Quiet List???/ Greens


> Hello Rose Marie,
>    The nation is getting older and eating habits are changing. Also 
> communication is more rapid, restaurants and local cafe's are serving more 
> national foods than the local. I am originally from central Kentucky, 
> lived in southern Indiana for the past 25 years or so.... I have certainly 
> changed my eating habits over the last 10 to 15 years. While not exactly a 
> southerner, I do come from small town poor... close enough for big pots of 
> beans and cornbread, those mixed or turnip greens cooked all day with 
> pork.
>    Now we grow our own baby spinach and if it gets cooked it is only 
> wilted. It also gets used frequently in salads, or as a salad with walnut 
> oil and vinegar. We grow or purchase fresh herbs now when I knew only what 
> came in a small bottle and was salt and pepper. Now we have parsley, 
> cilantro regularly to name a couple... we clip rosemary regularly from the 
> garden. The local cafe' we frequent serves "light" using fresh ingredients 
> and herbs from the chef's garden and local coop of growers.
>    Do not know if I could handle a dish of greens cooked all day with 
> smoked pork.... does not even sound appealing any more. I think catalogs 
> such as yours are a part of the revolution in the way we now eat.
>    Gene E. Bush
> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> genebush@munchkinnursery.com
> Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rose Marie McGee" <rmnicholsmcgee@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [GWL] Quiet List???
>> Hello Gene and All,
> It seems
>> there is currently more interest in growing greens, spinach etc. than
>> we saw this time last year. A healthy change I say! > Rose Marie Nichols 
>> McGee
>> Nichols Garden Nursery
> 


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