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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

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A Gardening Blog
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 04:35:28 pm

I went to a press preview in Seattle Monday night for "The Food Folly Follies" starring nutritionist/performer Abil Bradshaw. That's her below, playing one of the many characters in her show: a hunting and gathering cave woman.

If nutrition themed drama sounds like a good mash-up you'll love this show. Bradshaw plays several other characters (a rural Texas native, a Nurses Aid, a snake oil salesman) all revolving around food and nutrition.

One great feature of this show is that after the performance Bradshaw, a Bastyr University Masters graduate (Science, Nutrition), answers questions about nutrition. Naturally, I asked her what she had growing in her garden. She said her winter greens garden is in full swing: collard and mustard greens, radishes, arugula and something she called "corn salad" - I'll have to look into that one.

Another audience member asked her about foraging - does she actually do it like her cave woman does? Yes, she does. Rule #1: Don't pick anything you don't know. "Plants can kill you," she told us. Rule #2: Get away from roads where car exhaust will pollute the food. She says she can find all sorts of great wild greens for salads.

The one night only show is at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17 at The Museum of History and Industry. Go here for more information and/or tickets: http://www.abilnutritionist.com/

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