Once you start eating in season, you'll quickly realize that the tomato, lettuce, and cucumber salad is a farce --- lettuce is best in spring, fall, and winter when tomatoes and cucumbers are only far-off memories.  But what else can you put in a lettuce salad?  Here are some ideas:

• grated carrots
• Egyptian onion tops
• roasted almonds
• sliced strawberries (or softened strawberry jam in winter)
• snow or sugar snap peas
• chopped oranges
• dried fruits or vegetables - cranberries, raisins, and tomatoes are all good choices (although perhaps not together)

What are your favorite in-season salads?

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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