Word: vetches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from free-lance foragers who search out wild weeds, berries and mushrooms in nearby fields and woods. Another source is the small boutique farms sponsored by the chefs for raising game birds and organically fed animals. For salads, shopping lists may include some attractive exotic entries: lovage, hyssop, yarrow, vetch, pansies, nasturtiums, fava bean blossoms and shepherd's purse...
...thrashing its allegedly high and mighty opponents. Harvard resorted to teamwork and sheer determination. As a result, the outcome of the meet became apparent as soon as senior Captain Courtney Roberts beat Tiger freshman Dan Vetch in the 500-yd. freestyle. That gave Harvard a commanding lead with three events remaining...
...Conrad the guitar, the children sang till suppertime and then climbed into their sleeping bags. On other days, the Painters and Conrads walked among the ponderosa pine and the aspen trees, past berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water birds, the chit-chatter of squirrels and chipmunks and the hum of honey bees in the warm sun, the distant buzz...
...business of growing plants in water is centuries old. Long before the Christian era it was believed that plants got all their sustenance from water. In 1699 a natural historian named John Woodward grew spearmint, potatoes and vetch in water from springs and rivers. First experiments which involved adding nutrient chemicals to the water are credited to a German named Knop (1859). Growing commercial crops in water is another matter. At Berkeley, Dr. Gericke aimed at producing tank crops which would economically compete with or surpass soil-grown crops. So successful was he that several California vegetable and flower growers...