Dec 5 – Seriously – it’s December and this is my first carrot! It’s pretty small. These are the ones I rescued from certain death by swallowtail caterpillar molestation earlier this summer. Those caterpillars that extrude a horrible smelling oily terpene on your hands when you try to pick them off the almost eaten-to-the-root carrot branches. In any case, I washed it off and ate it and it tasted like a carrot! Yay. But nothing special to be honest. Maybe it was not carrot-friendly dirt. What do carrots like?