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The dean of SMU's Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development weighed in on the DISD grading changes. He came down in favor of them. You can read the whole thing here, but we'll excerpt the highlights after the jump...

By Cindy Naas Even small gardens can produce staggering amounts of some veggies. Here are some suggestions and recipes to use up all of the zucchini, chard and tomatoes your garden might be producing right now.

I’ve been thinking lately of iron, as it pertains to the vegetarian diet. The reason i’ve been thinking about this, is because i read (not too long ago) on a vegetarian nutrition blog, that IRON is best absorbed when combined with another food item. Image Source: Spring 3D But not just any food item, foods rich in Vitamin C.

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As per Cybercelt of the Blog Village Communtity and Endangered Spaces Blog request. Chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla), also known as Swiss chard and perpetual spinach, is a green leafed vegetable often mistaken for spinach. Regular chard has creamy white stems (ribs, stalks) with dark green leaves.

The Italian "black kale" (sometimes known as "Tuscan kale" or "dinosaur kale") patch in our tiny garden I have to confess-- I am a terrible gardener! I love harvesting the fruits of the garden, but not growing them. However, we live on an island of gardeners, so there's no problem getting fresh, organic produce this time of year.

Thanks for all the great comments. I am feeling better, although I’ll admit that this cold is just hanging on and tormenting me. But enough of that because despite the silly cold I’m as busy as ever and I’ve got something special to share with you today.

For the last few weeks the garden has truly bloomed...and bolted in some places. A combination of hot sunshine and lots of rain made the rhubarb chard we had planted as part of the River Cottage Seed Project bolt over the space of 2 days.

Some nights we cook several different dishes, more than we really need for one meal. Then we eat easy leftover meals for a couple of days.That's what happened tonight, because Mr. Fixit and Ponytails volunteered to barbecue some chicken wings after I already had some things ready to cook.

I’m having a good time making my grocery money stretch; using God’s resources carefully; praying and watching Him work. I altered my menu a bit last week, when we we’re given the swiss chard. I thought… hummm, the green chard would be good in a stir fry, and the white stem, cut on the diagonal [...]