To The Bone

To The Bone

Canning for One... or Two

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Hank Shaw
Oct 28, 2025
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Dead basil among very alive parsley.

There comes a time in October when the basil can’t pretend anymore.

Even the lightest caress of frost, barely enough to raise the hairs on the proverbial arms of its neighboring parsley, is enough to send basil into a death spiral. More than an hour of that, and she’s done. Dead, inside and out.

Our world narrows as the days shorten. We are still two fu…

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