vegetables

Around Nuwara Eliya

DrFumblefinger visits the high altitude city of Nuwara Eliya. The town has a cool climate and is a center of vegetable and tea production. It also is proud of those relics of British Colonial rule that linger in the city.

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Dec. 20, 2015: Winter at the Greenmarket

It’s clearly winter now at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, with only a few days left until Christmas, and only the hardiest of crops remaining—but those include lovely piles of scallions with their roots showing, and plenty of turnips, beets and carrots. Not to mention lots of apples of many varieties (no, those aren’t tomatoes in the boxes) as well as meats, baked goods and specialty foods. And, of course, it’s the season for some non-edibles as well, in the form of holiday…

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Around Nuwara Eliya

DrFumblefinger visits the high altitude city of Nuwara Eliya. The town has a cool climate and is a center of vegetable and tea production. It also is proud of those relics of British Colonial rule that linger in the city.

Read More

Dec. 20, 2015: Winter at the Greenmarket

It’s clearly winter now at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, with only a few days left until Christmas, and only the hardiest of crops remaining—but those include lovely piles of scallions with their roots showing, and plenty of turnips, beets and carrots. Not to mention lots of apples of many varieties (no, those aren’t tomatoes in the boxes) as well as meats, baked goods and specialty foods. And, of course, it’s the season for some non-edibles as well, in the form of holiday…

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