Rhubarb apple soup! A surprise in a bowl.

I love rhubarb! The color, the tart, it being a sign that summer is getting close! My mother has always grown huge stalks in her garden, so much so that it looks more like a huge bush. When I was a kid I used to imagine I was an Olympian doing hurdles when I would rush toward the rhubarb, jump it, and clear it. I felt like a horse jumping a fence. I went back to Michigan last year and my mom and I harvested her crop: Note the wheelbarrow…

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A Victory Garden, a defense of the home front

One definition of a Victory garden, also called war gardens, or “food gardens for defense”, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.

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