Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... No one is quite sure why the leafy green is called “Swiss” chard, mainly by speakers of English only. Other languages and peoples call it merely “chard” or ...

Farmers are just as interested in growing something new as we are in trying out a delicious new vegetable. Linda Scharko of Scharko Farms says she waited two months to get her hands on the seeds for ...

Chard is never sweeter, more succulent or more robust in texture than right now, when cold weather has set in. Although we find chard in our markets throughout the year, this leafy vegetable is never ...

Local chard has been available through the winter at the Oxford Farmer’s Market. Chard is here year-round perhaps because the plant produces multiple crops. Chard is often grouped with kale. Both are ...

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Also called rainbow chard or Swiss chard, chard is a relative of the beet and the greens of chard look really similar to beet greens. Unlike beets, you won't find the root of chard for sale at the ...

Here on The Cutting Board, if you're unfamiliar with it, we find simple, delicious ways to prepare food, mostly vegetables. And I like to think I know my way around the kitchen. I mean, my boss even ...

S.S. of Rock Island quickly responded to the plea of B.B. of Rock Island for help preparing Swiss chard. S.S. speaks to the request with considerable experience. She writes: "Here are a few of my ...

This week's look at what's new, bountiful or even mysterious in the produce aisles. Chard, commonly known as Swiss chard, is perhaps the star among "leafy greens," that collection of nutritional ...

Chard is a leafy green vegetable that's part of the Chenopodiaceae family (a subfamily of the Amaranthaceae plant family, but in layman's terms, the beet family). Its large and crinkly leaves are ...