This Meatless Monday, we feature fennel, with growing, storage and prep tips, as well as recipes for Roasted Beet and Fennel Salad and Braised Fennel and Potatoes from Vermont Fresh: A Fruit and Vegetable Handbook. Background Fennel has feathery leaves that grow from a white, swollen stem often mistaken for a bulb.  Although it was [...]

This Meatless Monday, we feature potatoes, with growing, storage and prep tips, as well as recipes for Country Mashed Potatoes with Roasted Garlic and Rosemary and Potato Salad from Vermont Fresh: A Fruit and Vegetable Handbook. Background Potatoes were first cultivated many thousands of years ago in Chile and Peru and were taken back to Europe [...]