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A rainy start to the organic growing season and, as in previous years with the farm, the first basket has a lot of leafy vegetables. If you didn’t know, leafies like cool weather, which explains their abundance.

I got yummy garlic scapes, as well as radishes, young green onions, pak choy, frizzy lettuce, mesclun, mizuna and spinach. Once home, I busily worked on cleaning all the goodies in a DIY vegetable soak — good thing because there was an earwig hiding in the lettuce! (Makes me shiver even now).

The bulk item of the day was oregano and I took a HUGE bunch because I cleaned out my spices before moving. You can bet it’ll be dried and stored for future. I couldn’t understand why more people didn’t take some.

Did I mention I was a busy bee tonight? I took the organic rhubarb from 2 weeks ago (procrastinate much?) and made this syrup. I also added a bit of ginger and the end result promises tasty, light summer drinks. Yum! And sooooo much easier than making a pie.