How I learned to love leeks
EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / November 22, 2017
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ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY’RE LOCAL
by Duane, founder and Head Veggie Fairy
I love when the winter months come and we have fresh, local leeks in the kitchen. My first farm encounter with leeks was on a nice fall day. I was standing in a field out at Charlie Collins’ Victory Farms in Henrico. Charlie sold his produce at in-person farmers markets, and I was looking at a fifty-foot-long row of leeks. They were at the peak of ripeness and ready for harvest. But Charlie was about to till them all under. Why? He’d learned…
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