Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Wow, summer time weather is upon us as we experience the first 90 degree F temperatures of the growing season. I see many local farmers baling hay and ...

If you don’t know how to grow parsnips yet, it’s likely someone told you they were hard to grow. This would be unfair, in our opinion. The humble parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is low maintenance and ...

This past week I had the honor to sit with Steve Hughes of WZLP on his radio program called “Kick’n Clods with Kermit.” I was the guest. Our topic was on invasive and poisonous plants, and we talked ...

If you enjoy eating carrots and growing them in your garden, I encourage you to try your hand at cultivating parsnips, too. They’re one of my family’s favorite root crops. Parsnips (Pastinaca sativa) ...

Parsnips overwintered in the garden and dug early in the spring are extra sweet and tender. (Pat Munts/For The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo I harvested my first crop of vegetables from the garden ...

A sweet tender treat awaits my taste buds whenever I prepare parsnips. Parsnips are truly one of my favorite vegetables that I first enjoyed as a young child. Growing up on a farm in central Maine, my ...

But back to parsnips. I think of them as a spring tonic, a treat that offers me fresh flavors and vitamins only hours from the garden. Last year, I neglected to plant parsnips in the spring and couldn ...

Parsnip season is around the corner. Parsnips are a “crop of antiquity,” an old-fashioned vegetable, brought to America from Europe by colonists but it had been in cultivation for thousands of years.

Parsnips develop their best flavor after the first frost, so harvest them in early winter before they start regrowing in spring. Wear gloves when digging them up, as parsnip foliage can irritate skin.

After the Smith Crossing Community Garden in Sun Prairie had an overgrowth of wild parsnips, an initiative was taken to clear out the weed. That initiative included taking 40 goats from Goats on the ...

What is this long, cream-colored cylindrical root vegetable? Is this a white carrot? No, this is Pastinaca sativa which can easily be confused as a carrot but is actually a parsnip, which is related ...

"Mer," my mother-in-law, was over a 100 years old and straight as a ramrod and sharp as a tack, and calories truly did not matter. I had prepared her favorite vegetable with an unctuous amount of ...