Welcome David Kennedy author of Eat Your Greens

Photo Source: New Society Publishers

This week David Kennedy will be joining us to talk about growing, harvesting, and eating all sorts of leafy greens.

There are four copies of his book, Eat Your Greens up for grabs.

David will be stopping by on the forum over the next few days answering questions and joining in discussions.

From now through this Friday, any posts in this forum, ie the cooking forum, could be selected to win.

To win, you must use a name that follows our naming policy and you must have your email set up in Paul's Daily-ish email.

The winner will be notified by email and must respond within 24 hours.

Posts in this thread won't count, but please feel free to say hi to David and make him feel welcome!

Greetings David
Hope for a great round of talks.

Hey David. Wishing you a wonderful time with all.

Welcome David,

As I sit here eating my bowl of Kale and Potatoes I look forward to hearing what you have to share. Here in Vermont we're learning to stretch the season with double row covers - it is snowing and 30 and I still have kale and broccoli growing under cover - last year the cold hit too hard too soon and we didn't get much, but the year before we were picking kale into early January. It is hit and miss but with Global Weirding we figure it is worth trying, some years we'll get lucky and have winter greens and others we won't.

-Kelly

Good morning from downtown Denver David! It's cold and I'm dreaming of living the dream of some land and a FOOD LAB that I'd love to tell you a bit about. I don't quite have the totality of the DREAM on paper yet, but it's in my head. I'll try to share it with you before you finish up with the "EAT YOUR GREENS" segment here @ permies.com, where all are friends and lovers of green food and energy!

Cheers!
Vicki

welcome David !
greens yum , growing up eating mostly spinach and beet greens . I thought I knew my greens . gardening over the many years has introduced me to all sorts of greens with great flavors .( collards ,many types of kale,and chards ( chard is my current favorite for taste and production) sweet potato greens and most recently carrot tops. always interested in learning more . especially which greens are available to cook from plants with other useable parts that are non bitter .

Thanks for the nice welcome. Some very interesting information, blogs, ideas, dreams, imaginings,etc here at Permies forum. I am in north central Florida zone 9A but have spent most of the afternoon sadly harvesting a lot of tropical leaf crops because we have a hard freeze warning for tonight. Some for supper, some for freezing and some for drying. Moringa, chaya, Okinawan spinach, taioba, soko, amaranth, sweet potato greens, roselle, cranberry hibiscus all thinking Florida was warmer than this!

Late greeting, just to say how I appreciate the information you give, and what I have begun to read on your website.
I understand why you know about tropical plants!

I did not think I would come to the cooking forum, as I am into my rocket stove and more, but it was worth it.
And finally I have 2 important questions in mind, and I am going to ask them!

So I ran the winner picker app in the forum software and we have 2 winners.

Joshua Myrvaagnes
and
Markus Laumann

Congratulations Joshua and Markus!

I sent you an email to ask for the email address of the person that first referred you to Permies.com. That person (if qualified) will also get a copy of the book and a permies care package.

Just got my book today--am very happy with some things in here:

--growing cold-hardy veggies in the winter is not just about growing cold-hardy veggies in the winter--it's about having them still be _fresh_ in the winter! so, you can let them do virtuall all of their growingin late fall and then they'll just be hanging out and surviving in the colder time, but staying fresh, so you can then harvest fresh in winter. Or maybe even bring them indoors for the end of their life and take them outdoors for a few hours right before you eat tmem if you feel you want them to get some fresh sun, then eat them and get hte nutritional benefit of fresh hyperlocal food!!! Oh, and not necessary to do a greenhouse, it can be a TEFA kind of thing as far as that goes. Total obviousness in hindsight but I just never thought of it.
--growing moringa--I feel a bit more confident I can do this! if I manage to get my paypal working again...something beyong the powers of a book on greens to ccomplish
-- you can eat scarlet runner bean leaves!!! my landlord always grows the damn things every year, then saves the beans and grows them again the next year. We get 0 food out of this whole process, and put a lot of work into it. but now--we can eat the leaves!!! i would never have thought of that, but it's so useful.

I love that the focus is on nutrition--the end goal I really want--am hoping there's more about wild greens or easy-to-grow things too. It's really desnsely packed with information.

Thanks so much for the gift of this book!

Hie - I shall be very happy to contact and speak with David KENNEDY about foliar extract for moringa leaves and lucerne . Eric