Jill Murray

I’m starting a new weekly column about fresh, local, in-season vegetables on Sundays at Torontoist and I’m very excited about it. My first installment is all about broccoli.

“What’s most important for Toronto to recognize about the broccoli issue right now is that it’s grown locally and it’s still in season, but we’ve only got a few weeks left until it and a few other treasured greens abandon Toronto to a long dark winter of roots and cabbage-like things.

That means that residents on the pro side would do well to set out to a local farmer’s market in search of tight buds, bright greyish-green leaves and paler, slender yellowy-green stems. Avoid those thick stems– they have woody tendancies– and if the buds are blooming or the florets are yellow, watch out! It’s too late for that head; save yourself.”

If you’re concerned about the broccoli hype, you can read the rest here