Tag: rhubarb

Fresh homemade strawberry rhubarb jelly with strawberries and rhubarb

Can nature, food, and ancestry connect us? My mother, born into a German household in southern Minnesota, grew up knowing and enjoying a plant called rhubarb. It is a cultivated plant in the genus Rheum in the family Polygonaceae. It is an herbaceous perennial growing from short, thick rhizomes. Upon further investigation, I discovered the […]

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