This North Carolina Children, Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR) project uses community gardening to: empower communities to produce food for families, deliver hands-on nutrition education, create opportunities for youth to develop agri-related business skills, build leadership among community members, and provide engaging activities for family members of all ages to work together for a common purpose.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Vegetable of the Month for April: Swiss Chard

In writing the Vegetable of the Month for April, you can NOT believe how many delicious, beautiful, creative ways I discovered to prepare chard!

Feast your eyes here for just a sampling of some of those tasty creations -- from stir frys to casseroles and biscuits to smoothies!


 
View the Veggie of the Month info sheet below in full screen mode if your eyes hurt from looking at the small font  (click next to the orange Download button) OR download it to your computer and save it for future reference.


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The forerunner of beets and a close cousin to spinach, Swiss chard has brought color, flavor and nutrition to gardens since the time of Aristotle. Adaptable and productive, chard tolerates light frost as well as summer heat. Think of this easy-to-care-for crop as tall, heat-tolerant spinach.
 

 
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