What's In Season - December

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Northern California

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It's a good time for leafy green vegetables and roots. A plate of greens may not be the most inspiring dish but with the addition of a little cream and bacon it is transformed.

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Fact: If every U.S. citizen ate just one locally grown meal a week - the countries oil consumption would be reduced by 1 million barrels every week.

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Vegetables

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•artichoke

•beans

•beets

•broccoli

•brussels sprouts
•burdock

•cabbages

•cardoons

•carrots

•cauliflower

•celery

•chard

•collards

•cress

•endive

•fennnel

•garlic

•greens

•herbs

•horseradish

•kale

•kohlrabi

•leeks

•lettuce

•mushroom

•olives

•onions

•parsnips

•peppers

•potatoes

•radicchio

•radish

•rapini

•spinach

•sweet potato

•turnips

•winter squash

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Fruit

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•almonds

•apples

•avocados

•grapes

•chestnuts

•dates

•dried fruit

•grapefruit

•guava

•lemons

•limes

•kiwi

•kumquats

•oranges

•pears

•persimmons

•pistachios

•pomegranates

•pomelos

•tangerines

•walnuts

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