Getting Our Greens at Leyda's

The other evening, when someone (unnecessarily) apologized for the lack of green vegetables at the dinner we were eating, we replied “It’s alright, we split a side salad earlier today.”  Those four lettuce leaves and one tablespoon of shredded carrot ought to cover us, right?

An Afternoon with Dr. Strawberry

If you ever have the opportunity to hang out with a guy who has his PhD in strawberries, seize it.  Dr. Bob Bors heads the fruit department of the University of Saskatchewan (it’s part of the school’s renowned Plant Sciences program), and we visited him at the university’s 70-acre horticulture site in Saskatoon.