Farm Kitchen Chronicles: Black Bean and Spinach Burritos

With it still snowing in Wisconsin, the last of winter meals is upon us!

It is March in the upper Midwest, where the only green that is growing locally that you can reliantly get is spinach. (I mean, for the most part.) Growing spinach in the winter until spring is fairly easy to do in a hoophouse, but also just growing it under cover in low tunnels, or in simple cold frames that you can make yourself using things you can find, or maybe already have (old window panes and straw bales, for example.) You can look up lots of builds by searching for how to make cold frames. Lots of good ideas out there!

Spinach is extremely cold-hardy, making it a good winter growing plant. As temps dip, the sugar content in the leaves increase in the vasculature, which prevents it from freezing. (It also makes the leaves sweeter.)