On the Scent of the Overlooked Quince + Root Veg Recipes

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Growing QuinceQuince expert Joseph Postman joins us to talk about quince. This fragrant fruit is unknown to many in North America, and often relegated to use as a rootstock for pear trees.Postman is a retired plant pathologist and curator of the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Oregon, where he helped develop a pear collection with cultivars and species from around the world.We talk about:What is quinceHow to use quince fruitThe use of quince trees as rootstock for pear treesQuince varietiesQuince cold hardinessQuince diseasesDelectable Root Vegetable RecipesCookbook author and professional home economist Jennifer MacKenzie joins us to talk about cooking root vegetables and shares recipes from her book The Complete Root Cellar Book. We talk about:Shopping for root vegWhat to look for if you're planning to store root vegSpiced roasted turnip and beet batonsBeet and carrot slawRoot cellar medley soupParsnip and pear soup