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Super Simple Garden Recipes: Broccoli & Edamame w/ Soy Sesame Dressing
What to do when it’s mid-January and you are wishing you left more space in your July - October crop plan to allow for a more robust winter harvest? Well, for us, we are finding ourselves heading to our chest freezer, where we’ve currently got a hefty supply of broccoli!
Super Simple Garden Recipes: Delicata Squash with Thai Vinaigrette
This recipe is a great way to enjoy winter squash. We used our garden grown delicata (our favorite since it doesn’t require peeling the skin), but imagine it would be great with other varieties of winter squash, too! We adapted this recipe using the ingredients we had on hand.
BUG Gardeners: Grete & Rob
Grete and Rob (with their dog, Bear), renters in east Bend, embarked on their first season of gardening in the high desert with help from Bend Urban Gardens.
Super Simple Garden Recipes: Crepes with Kale, Lentils & Whipped feta
On a recent weeknight, I found myself foraging through the fridge and pantry, hoping for some dinner menu inspiration. My search yielded recently harvested winter kale, a jar of black lentils, an onion, some feta cheese, a container of whipped cream cheese with just a few tablespoons left, some eggs, half and half and flour.
BUG Gardeners: Greg & Luke
Greg and his family had grown vegetables in San Diego and Las Vegas before moving to Bend and inheriting an existing raised garden bed at their new west Bend home.
Super Simple Garden Recipes: Hidden Veggie Brownies
You have to taste this classic comfort food, made vegan, to believe it!
BUG Gardener: Sunny
After growing veggies in-ground on her property, Sunny reached out to BUG to help set her up for more success. She used her bank of garden lesson hours for periodic check-ins throughout the growing season to keep herself on track to meeting her gardening goals!
Super Simple Garden Recipes: Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookies
Carrots & cookies for breakfast??!?!!
Where should I get seeds for my veggie garden?
Where should I get seeds for my veggie garden?
Super Simple Garden Recipes: Deviled Eggs with Spinach & Sakari Farms’ Smoked Paprika Powder
Deviled eggs with spinach and smoked paprika from Sakari Farms
BUG Gardeners: Stephanie, Josh, Fischer & Reid
After engaging in a farm storyline unit at school, Fischer and Reid were eager to grow food themselves. Fortunately, their parents thought it’d be a great idea!
Super Simple Garden Recipes: Kale Caesar Salad with Nutty Herb Croutons
BUG Gardener Christine says, “I love a good kale caesar! We've had so much great kale from the garden this year! Our herb garden has also been wonderful.”
BUG Gardener: Christine
After some years of success growing mostly leafy greens in a very accessible, but partially shaded area of her yard, Christine decided to expand her 2021 garden to benefit from more sunshine and expand her family’s at-home food production.
Super Simple Garden Recipes: Winter Squash Pear Ginger Soup
Winter Squash Pear Ginger Soup
Super Simple Garden Recipes: Chard and Sausage
Try prepping ingredients ahead of time and store in the fridge to use in multiple meals over a few days. You could wash and chop greens, dice an onion, mince some garlic, and pre-cook sausage. This makes for extra speedy meal creation on busy weeknights, when you just aren’t feeling like cooking, or even for breakfast!
BUG Gardeners: Geri & The Whispering Winds Gardeners
Talitha, the Social Director at Whispering Winds Retirement Community on the eastside of Bend, knew very little about growing plants back in the spring of 2021, but was determined to revitalize the existing on-site garden to create a place for outdoor socializing and activities.
BUG Gardeners: Veronica & Kevin
Veronica and Kevin eased into gardening by growing strawberries and herbs in containers. After about a year of living in their historic westside Bend home and working remotely, they decided it was time to transform their south facing front yard into a vegetable garden.