Winter is prime time for garden planning, and savoring the bounty in seed catalogs with a warm cuppa is a cozy way to cheer up cold grey days! Morning cuppa A favorite organic gardener and chef in Wales, Gaz Oakley, reminds us to consider flavor, and include heritage varieties! A vegan himself, he has a little flock of retired rescue hens, in charge of pest management, providing companionship and fertility - and his neighbors are grateful for the eggs! Black cap raspberries From my garden journal, 2006, "For too long vegetable gardening has been obsessed with shape and SIZE. Better that care be lavished from tilth to table on growing tasty food, whose beauty is a bi-product to be relished." Montague Don, the Sensuous gardener. In a later chapter, Don comments that there was a shift to growing for size and quantity when men took on a larger role, as there's 'an inbuilt relationship between Horticulture and gastronomy when the person(s) coo...