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You can plan what you are going to do next weekend, next month and even years into the future…but life sometimes takes a turn that wasn’t in the plan… as it did for my family last week when my husband, Kent, had a mild stroke. It was a ’small’ stroke from the doctors perspective, and [...]
Garden Harvest Cucumbers, Lettuce, Basil, Spinach, Broccoli, Thyme, Parsley and the very first tomatoes have arrived! Ok… so there are way too many cucumbers and the spinach and broccoli “bolted” which, I think, means they had shoots that flowered before they really had much in the way of spinach leaves or broccoli heads (very small). [...] Community Garden A few weeks ago I wrote a blog on the seedlings that I started for garden this year (Seeding the Summer). Well, the little plants are now in their summer home in my small corner of the Shaker Community Garden plot. The picture on the left gives you some idea of the size [...]
Seed packets At the end of last summer, I was not sure I wanted to start a garden again this year. Last year started off only ok. Most of the plants that I started from seed died early, but there was some good early success with corn, tomatoes, rhubarb and squash — see “My First [...]
Fresh Food Over the last week I have had an opportunity to watch two movies and a TEDprize presentation about America’s un-sustainable food industry: “Fresh“, “Food, Inc” and Jamie Oliver’s TED prize acceptance video. I wasn’t seeking out information on food … but they all presented themselves in the last week so I felt it [...] For Christmas I received two books that I have been enjoying related to sustainable food, gardening, cooking and green kitchen products and processes. The first book is called “The Green Kitchen” by Richard Ehrlich. It is based on a column in the “Times of London”. This book has great tips on everything from taking advantage [...]
my garden Ok…maybe not my very first garden, but the first one that ever produced anything edible. My family probably thinks I’ve gone off the deep end because I’ve made everyone of them look at my corn stalks and little green tomatoes. I can’t believe there is actually good food growing in my garden — [...]
kites TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. Once a year the TED conference brings together some of the worlds most ‘fascinating’ thinkers and gives them 18 minutes to speak on their subject of interest. More and more of them are focused on sustainability, renewable resources, and general green topics. Here are some of the recent [...] |
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