Winter Gardening:
Meeting with the Hill Garden Club
New England’s long winters
are a trial for all of us. For gardeners and others with green thumbs, the winters
can seem especially long.
So what’s a gardener to do when the ground is still frozen
and covered with snow?
Members of the Hill Garden Club meet monthly, year-round, to
discuss gardening tactics, strategies, successes, and challenges. Their March
meeting took place at the Wilson Branch Library, and the topic du jour was preserving
harvested food.
Our AmeriCorps VISTA Members were on hand to help concoct
the perfect way to preserve crops so that they can be enjoyed year-round. The
gardeners shared their pickling and fermentation know-how and old family
traditions. Together, the club looked through instructional books and online forums
for the perfect pickling recipe.
The club then tried their hand at pickling a head of
cauliflower, following a simple recipe that required only salt, water, and
slight seasonings to allow the natural flavor of the cauliflower to come
through. Everyone agreed that the pickling process was easy – and a fun
activity to replicate at future meetings with different types of vegetables!
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