Soliciting recipes from our members for the GCMGA cookbook “Gardeners Cook”, a contest was held at three different meetings early in 2012. There were lots of great entries and the winners are: Rita Rudinski won for her salad entry. Latha Yatabe is presented her ribbon for her appetizers by Joe Washington. Judy Chesser shows off her cake for desserts with Shirley Bohm, Cookbook Chair looking on. Related Images:
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Start a tradition – Eat your vegetables
With our busy lives, who can take the time to grow a traditional garden? Who has the space in their HOA mandated landscape to grow vegetables? While I passionately embrace gardening, I have never, ever embraced a love of hoeing, watering, or for that matter, straight rows! I grew up in the 1960’s in rural America, the youngest of 4 girls whose father grew a huge garden. We planted rows of beans, corn, tomatoes, peppers, squash, and potatoes. My father, being an equal rights man as he had no sons, taught his daughters to garden as he had been taught by his father, who had been taught by his father. He was a stickler for details, such as his straight rows which made the garden beautiful every year. He would cut the potato pieces so each piece had exactly the same amount of eyes. He would hand us the bucket…