edible traditions
WHATS IN SEASON
Ripe and ready produce growing in the Reno-Tahoe region.
COMPILED BY JANA VANDERHAAR
ILLUSTRATION BY PAN PANTOJA
March
Arugula, Asian greens, beets, carrots, chard, collard greens, green onions, kale, lettuce mixes, mache, mizuna, mustard greens, Napa cabbage, parsley, radishes, spinach, and turnips
Note: In mid-March, start warm-season crop seedlings indoors.
April
Arugula, Asian greens, beets, carrots, chard, cilantro, collard greens, Daikon radishes, fava beans, green onions, kale, leeks, lettuce mixes, mizuna, mustard greens, Napa cabbage, parsley, peas, spinach, and turnips
May
Asparagus, beets, broccoli rabe, cabbage, carrots, chard, chives, collard greens, Daikon radishes, dandelions, fava beans, green onions, kale, leeks, lettuce mixes, parsley, peas, rhubarb, spinach, strawberries (early), and turnips
Note: At the end of May or early June, sow and transplant warm-season crop seedlings outdoors.
Featured Artist
Pan Pantoja is the cofounder and curator of Reno Art Works, and cofounder and artistic director of the Potentialist Workshop, both located on Dickerson Road in Reno. He has received several purchase grants from the Reno Arts and Culture Commission for public art pieces, such as the large-scale mural along Reno’s Keystone Bridge and a quarter-mile garden mural at a bus stop on Wedekind Road in Reno. Recently, Pantoja was commissioned to sculpt two desert tortoises, one for the City of Reno and one for the new sculpture garden in Fernley. See more of Pantoja’s work, or contact him, at www.Renoartworks.org.
