The highest praise for fruit isn’t simply calling it sweet. The best fruit tastes complex, sometimes sour or bitter or both, maybe with hints of flowers or grass or almonds. And it evolves as the ...

Rhubarb is the unsung hero of the spring. You're used to hearing about strawberries, watermelon, and peaches — the beach blanket superstars — but rhubarb plays an important role in warm-weather ...

One of the beautiful things about food and eating locally is that seasonal ingredients often pair wonderfully together, as though nature has a palate all her own, delivering wild edibles at just the ...

As a kid, the first plant I would see poking up around the shed at Grandpa’s farm was rhubarb. Each spring the leaves would grow large and the stalks would grow long as the first tiny wildflowers ...

Rhubarb-blueberry pie is a perfect pie for this time of year when rhubarb is at its best. Serve it plain or with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. The all-butter crust is a snap to make with the ...

These shortbread bars are somewhere in-between a summer pie and a shortbread cookie. The filling isn't overly sweet so it allows the flavors of fresh summer rhubarb and blueberries to really shine ...

The heartiest plant in my whole yard is the rhubarb bush that reappears in my garden year after year. I honestly don’t even remember planting it, but every spring it shoots from the ground, always the ...

But now that it's July, it's blueberry season. In fact, says Kathy, some blueberry patches are open and ready for the picking. Kathy also sent along a recipe for her favorite blueberry pie. “This ...

Note: This dough recipe makes enough for 1 double-crust 9-inch pie. For the larger slab pie, you'll need to make the recipe twice, one for each crust. The pastry is best when allowed to chill ...

Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable that is primarily used as a fruit in cooking. It grows best in full sun and fertile, well-drained soil. Rhubarb should not be harvested the first year it is planted to ...

One of the beautiful things about food and eating locally is that seasonal ingredients often pair wonderfully together, as though nature has a palate all her own, delivering wild edibles at just the ...