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My friends, Suzanne and Tom grew Ox and Robin's Musquee de Provence last summer, and just cooked it up a couple days ago. You don't think about eating pumpkins in February, but this variety will last into May. "Your pumpkin is filling up my entire oven," Tom told me on the phone. They roasted it...

PHOTO: An Italian Heirloom tomato so big (1.8 pounds) it covers most of a dinner plate. It's that time of year when all the many hours you’ve spent transplanting, staking, and weeding your tomato plants have finally paid off. Now you have containers full of tomatoes in the fridge, and baskets,...

Try Italian Heirloom Tomatoes and Fish Peppers, new for 2019 Happy Spring!!! There’s no doubt that spring is in full swing here in western Massachusetts. The robins are singing, the forsythias in bloom, and the peepers sound like they are throwing one heck of a party in every vernal pool....