It is already July! I can’t believe half of 2026 has passed! But it doesn’t mean half of our vegetable season has passed. There are still lots to come to the market. Summer vegetables such as cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are still growing. We have abundance of lettuce. Kales and collards suffered from aphids…
Wet laundry being dried in the room, a chorus of frogs from rice paddies, small tadpoles in the nearby pond and rivers, hydrangea flowers in the neighbourhood’s front yard. These are my memories from late spring to early summer rainy season called “Tsuyu 梅雨” in Japan. While we grapple over lack of rain here on…
