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. It’s Publication Day!! 💜 After more than 15 years of radicchio obsession, I’m so excited that TODAY Radicchio: A Celebration of the Beloved Italian Vegetable is out in the world. More than 15 years ago, I began exploring crops we could grow in the cold months to help build a thriving local winter market in the Pacific Northwest. That work led me to radicchio, and down a joyful rabbit hole of traveling to Italy, wandering through radicchio fields, sharing countless meals, and learning from farmers (🙏🏽 @myrthazierock @farmersiri @jasonsalvo ) breeders (🙏🏽 @smarties.bio), chefs, historians, and home cooks. Along the way, a community of radicchio lovers in the Pacific Northwest and Italy helped bring this beautiful bitter vegetable into the spotlight. This book grew out of that community. 💜 Coauthored with Margarett Waterbury (@margarett_maria) and filled with Shawn Linehan’s beautiful photography (@shawnlinehan), the book explores radicchio’s history, culture, botany, growing and cooking. It shares recipes and stories from chefs, farmers and grandmothers in Italy and the United States. It’s the first in-depth book dedicated entirely to radicchio, and I hope it inspires more people to grow it, cook it, eat it and fall in love with it as I have. Find it at your local independent bookstore, wherever books are sold online or at one of our events this radicchio season! So much gratitude to Margarett, Shawn, publisher @timberpress, editor @makenna_good, agent @theosheaagency, cover designer @theevincentjames , recipe tester @emilyrpark, illustrator @wrkstd and the entire chicory community for making this book possible. 🥬💜 Photo by @portlandgem
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You’re Invited! We’d love for you to be our guest at the Oregon Organic Coalition’s “Organic Social” closing out PNW Organic Week THIS Sunday 9/20. 4-7pm at Minto Island Growers in Salem, OR. We’ll all be taking a well deserved break to connect, unwind and raise a glass to Oregon’s incredible organic community at the end, and the start (we see you grape growers and winemakers), of a busy season. We’ve organized a beautiful evening of great food, drinks, live music and family fun at Minto Island Farm in Salem from 4-7. Minto Island is an organic farm growing vegetables and plant starts as well as mint and Camelia sinensis tea. Bring the kids and the rest of the family and enjoy a relaxing evening at Minto Island. This event is completely free of charge. Food and 2 drink tokens are included for each RSVP. More drink tokens can be purchased day of. RSVP in Paperless Post - Link in Bio. Food provided by Minto Island Growers: Pizzas (GF available) -Cheese -Pepperoni -Italian -Verde Salads -Kale Salad -Minto Island Greens Salad -Ginger Sesame Noodle Salad Drinks: -Iced Tea -Fresh Fruit Lemonade -Local Beer, Wine + Cider Music: Tevis Hodge Jr. - Born in Virginia, and inspired by his southern black heritage, Tevis began playing blues at the age of 12 years old. With a deep love for Black American music, Tevis is compelled to bring the traditions of his heritage to life. Well versed in multiple blues idioms such as the Piedmont, Delta, Texas, urban and country blues styles, He also dips into jazz, jug band, folk and even old timey novelty tunes. This event is generously hosted by The Oregon Organic Coalition. Sponsored by- @oregonorganiccoalition Production by @stockpotco Watercolor by @nancyengart Music by @tevis_hodgejr Food by @mintogrowers Tea by @mintoislandtea Artwork by @wrkstd
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. Just a few photos of yesterday’s super fun 6th annual TOMATO FEST at @wellspentmarket More in depth coverage to come. I was barely able to leave my booth to see the rest of the action so these are mostly people passing by that caught our eye. Portland loves tomatoes and fans showed up in droves with ‘mater funk and flash. Standing in long lines to taste Jim Myers’ latest breeding lines, grab the best BLT in town, talk with and support all the growers and makers with booths, learn about buckwheat and just party together in the street! Thanks all for coming out! Next up is Sagra del Radicchio e Fagioli on October 24th. Get your tickets before they sell out! 💗🍅🥬💗🥬🍅💗
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. RSVP to join for: 💜🥬💜🥬💜🥬💜🥬💜🥬💜 Organic Radicchio Farm Tours Sunday, October 25 💜🥬💜🥬💜🥬💜🥬💜🥬💜 Interested in learning more about growing radicchio successfully and organically? Join Culinary Breeding Network for two farm tours: 🌱 Flying Coyote Farm — 10:00 a.m. 🌱 Empowered Flowers — 2:00 p.m. Farmers Lili & Dan and Adrianna & Joelene will share their experiences growing radicchio organically, and we’ll be joined by experienced radicchio growers from @uprising.seeds and @localrootsfarm to talk variety selection, production practices, challenges, growing tips, and more. These tours are intended primarily for professional farmers and farmworkers, produce buyers, and others working in agriculture and the food industry. Space is limited and registration is first come, first served. Please RSVP at the link in profile, and be sure to complete a separate RSVP form for each person attending. Free • Light lunch included • Register by October 20 Organized by Culinary Breeding Network Sponsored by the Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP) Art by @wrkstd + @beckprojekt
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. Original screenprints from Italy are hot off the press & available at TOMATO FEST next Saturday from noon to 4pm at @wellspentmarket Original artwork by artist, musician and farmer Wolfgang Scheibe of TATTI STAMPA, the smallest print shop in Maremma, Italy. These lovely images are screen-printed and feature over different motives featuring vegetables, fruits, animals, etc in the back of an Ape (“ape” is Italian for “bee” and they are adorable Italian 3-wheeled utilitarian mini trucks). Wolfgang was born in Germany in 1947. He learned to be a traditional typesetter in the 1960s, the old Johann Gutenberg way. In 2007 he relocated to Tatti in Southern Tuscany. He has a small print shop where he crafts shirts, posters, and other graphic products. In between graphics, Wolfgang works as a biodynamic agriculture consultant, and plays his self-made (46 years ago) one-string bass, performing with musicians of various genres and origin in jam sessions and other live shows. Prints are 11.5” x 16.5”. They are originals and colors can vary. Special edition tomato series for TOMATO FEST! Come visit me, @portlandgem and @loveshovel to pick up one of these special prints! ❤️ #flavorbeginswithseed #bitterisbetter #radicchiorevolution
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Day 3 Amaranth Institute Symposium (Glamaranth Camp!) 🌱Shared maple caramel popped amaranth and popcorn 🌸 Danced goofy and lost our minds over the beauty @floretflower 💫 Recipe postcards, posters & stickers! @culinarybreedingnetwork @lichenology 🌾 Amaranth Institute board meeting & elections #glamaranth #amaranth
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SWEDEN ON FILM. I just got film photos back from my family’s trip to Sweden (and Copenhagen and Vienna) this past spring and the images feel surreal they feel so real. An odd by-product of digital life. It’s really like our little family’s experience was perfectly imprinted, translated through our Leica, capturing sweet moments with dear friends. Film is beautiful. The friends we visited in Övraby, the agrarian region of Skåne, is in the southern part of Sweden, set against gentle rolling hills, farms, artist studios, and just 10 minutes from the beach. Becky, Lars and their son Arvid welcomed us into their beautiful 1860’s farmhouse-turned home. They are artists who work together under a couple of different monikers — Werkstad @wrkstd, Beck Projekt @beckprojekt, and Poster Skola @posterskola. Becky is a talented art director and designer who brings in Lars’ masterful artwork to create a vision that feels distinct and crafted. They also work separately when called to. You can see their work at www.beckprojekt.com as well. We made food (or, truly, Becky and Lars fed us lavishly and made flat whites with lovely designs in the foam; we did some dishes), we talked, we beached, we flew kites, the kids played tag, we visited the 12th century church next door, and found architectural gems that are spotted around the region. Most notable (to me) being the Mariavall Abbey near Tomelilla by Dom Hans van der Laan, completed in 1991. I even snuck a photo of the tiniest nun I’ve ever seen locking a door in the abbey — when she turned and saw me, she raised her hands around her and looked around and then back to me as if to say, “can you even believe we get to be here?”. I truly could not. More photos, including this tiny nun, on the Journal page of our website. Link in bio of course. - Karie 💛
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. It has arrived!! Here’s a little sneak peak for you 💜 In all its glory and beauty, the new radicchio book finally exists after over a decade in the making. After tumbling down the rabbit hole which led to so many lovely characters, magical places and deliciously bitter meals. In the book you will meet farmers, chefs, historians and chicory nerds from Italy and the U.S. that made this book possible, and the reason to exist. Gorgeous photography by @shawnlinehan Illustrations by @wrkstd Recipe development and testing by @emilyrpark Coauthored by Lane Selman and @margarett_maria Preorder your copy now thru the link in our profile. Radicchio: A Celebration of the Beloved Italian Vegetable. Release date: September 29 from @timberpress
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. 🌱 Variety Showcase Spotlight: Rosé Cabbage 🌱 Join us at @glynwoodorg on August 30 as Chef Alex Raij of @txikitonyc & @lavarany creates a dish featuring plant breeder Phillip Griffiths’ stunning unreleased rosé cabbage. Originally from southeast Wales, “Griff” came to the U.S. in the early 1990s and earned his PhD in vegetable breeding at the University of Florida. Since joining Cornell University in 1999, he has focused on breeding Brassica crops, beans, and tomatoes, developing varieties that are not only productive but novel and delicious. His work aims to reinvent how we think about vegetables, introducing vibrant new colors and forms that delight growers, chefs and eaters alike. Among his latest breeding projects are rosé cabbage, golden and Tuscan broccoli, chili pepper-shaped tomatoes, colorful leafy brassicas, and mini kidney beans, with new varieties being trialed and introduced around the world. Come meet Griff and Alex, learn about the breeding behind this beautiful brassica, and be among the first to taste rosé cabbage at Variety Showcase. 🎟️ Tickets at the link in our bio. 📅 Sunday, August 30 | 4–7 pm 📍 Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, Cold Spring, NY #flavorbeginswithseed
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. Check out the THREE NEW ZINES on the Culinary Breeding Network website. 1 - Tomato Zine: Based on the TOMI research project, this zine introduces the tomato’s wild origins, history, and diversity, while sharing current organic breeding and disease-management research focused on developing more resilient, flavorful tomatoes. 2 - Naked Barley 2.0: Based to the @nakedbarley research project, this zine shares the history, uses, nutrition, and culinary potential of naked barley, along with numerous recipes from project collaborators and contributors including @sarahminnick_ , @sarah_c_owens , @abraberens , @1000bitesofbread and @wholegrainsurfer 3 - Breaking Vegetable Boundaries: Based on the BVB project led by @mazlabseeds and @beyondcabbage , this zine introduces the crops and breeding efforts to expand vegetable diversity across market classes, species, and cultural uses. It includes information on bitter gourd, Armenian cucumber/carosello, muskmelon, Tuscan collards, Rosé cabbage, dual-harvest broccoli, and peppers. Head to the CBN website to read them all!
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. It’s time to plant the RADEEK! Get your organic, open-pollinated Gusto Italiano Project radicchio seeds through @uprising.seeds that have been bred and grown in Italy by @smarties.bio - the magical duo shown together in the second photo 👯‍♀️💜🥬 Growing Radicchio tips: 🌱Radicchio is primarily a fall and winter crop, native to the Veneto region in northern Italy. 🌱There are many different radicchio types – swipe to see the Chicories poster for illustrations of each. 🌱Timing of planting is the single most important key to success with growing radicchio. 🌱In western Oregon and WA, radicchio seed is best sown (usually in garden flats) from mid-June to mid-July. 🌱After about four weeks, transplant the seedlings into your garden with 12” between plants. 🌱Each variety will mature at a different rate which is indicated on each seed packet. i.e. 90-100 days means it will be ready to harvest that many days after transplanting. To ensure radicchio all season, plant varieties that are early, mid and late season. 🌱For more growing details, read the Radicchiology section on the Uprising Seeds website. And to learn more about radicchio growing, botany, history and recipes, pre-order the new Radicchio book! Photos by @shawnlinehan
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. New poster in the shop. 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 Collab with @wrkstd & @beckprojekt - inspired by botany and Fillmore posters. 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 Follow the link in profile to get yours.
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