When spring is a tease, it helps to have your own grow room. All winter long our gardener, Jennifer Rosenthal, tends to mustard greens and red sorrel, lovage and minutina, so that we can pick tender leaves and shoots just before we need them. And while everyone is hunting for the first morels and ramps, the grow room is still active these first May mornings. It helps us get through those days when we have to jump over cold puddles on a grey skied walk to work. Since I live so close, my walk is just a hop-and-skip over Logan Boulevard, but these five minutes tell us what kind of day it will be. What we will have to rely on. Get out the scissors — it's a grow-room kind of morning.
Yes, we have a box of onions from Vicki and some ramps from a forest nearby. But we'll need to count on our sprouts and herbs to brighten up these last frigid days before we move with any pace toward a real spring.
Long thaws in Chicago, I've learned. But the market opens this week. We'll see you there.
- Jason Hammel
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Walk-ins are always welcome!
In addition to the Farm Dinner menu, our Café and Specials menus are also available on
Monday evenings.
