Posted in Food, Sustainable Farming on Saturday, May 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are a few more pictures of Fox Point Community Garden. You can see it’s a pretty funky little garden. This is a picture of the “garden shed”–a misnomer that conjures up images of small wooden shacks–when this is actually a big concrete building with plenty of storage space.
Posted in Food, Sustainable Farming on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Finally, I’m back home and able to blog. But not before going to the Southside Community Land Trust’s plant sale and loading up on organically grown vegetables to plant at my garden plot at Fox Point Community garden.
I was so excited to be back home, with beautiful weather that was perfect for plant shopping and [...]
Posted in Farming/Food, Food, Gardening, Sustainable Farming on Sunday, April 27, 2008 | 16 Comments »
I’m so excited because over the weekend I was offered a plot in a local community garden. I was waitlisted at three gardens and had pretty much given up hope of getting a plot this late in the game. But it turned out there were some openings at Foxpoint Community Garden, so I showed up [...]
Posted in Food, Native & Invasive Plants on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Fruit trees and shrubs are a great way to expand your backyard food production beyond the vegetable garden. When I was growing up, we had a peach tree, a persimmon tree, blackberries, and wild plums to graze on, and my grandmother kept us supplied us with raspberries, Concord grapes, and apples. For a while, [...]
Posted in Corporate Farming & GMO, Food on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
–John Muir, U.S. environmentalist, preservationist, author, & founder of the Sierra Club
Environmental News Network (ENN) has a great article about what happens when you tug on an ear of American corn. A scientist with the Smithsonian [...]
Posted in Field Trips, Food, Nature / Ecology on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | 9 Comments »
With approximately 15,000 acres of cranberry bogs, Massachusetts is the second largest cranberry-producing state. (Wisconsin is the first.) I recently spent an afternoon driving around southeastern Mass. looking at cranberry bogs and learning about cranberry farming.
Posted in Field Trips, Food on Saturday, October 13, 2007 | 6 Comments »
The cranberry has a starring role in the agricultural history of Massachusetts and New England. It’s still a major crop in Mass., as well as Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Maine and many other U.S. states and Canadian provinces. (Other states/provinces: don’t flame me ‘cuz I called them New England’s fall staple. I know you have [...]
Posted in Food on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Blogging has been light this last month because I moved and am just starting to come out of the moving & house-closing fog. I hope to be blogging more frequently now that things are starting to get back to normal. For now I’ll leave you with this picture of really local garlic, fresh from the [...]
Posted in Food on Saturday, July 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last year we learned from researchers at UT-Austin that that fruit and vegetables are less nutritious than they were 30 years ago, due to agricultural techniques that increase their size but don’t allow them to properly develop nutrients. This year we learn from scientists at University of California that organic tomatoes have more disease-busting flavonoids [...]
Posted in Food on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today’s post is written in honor of the earliest Americans, whose agricultural techniques allowed them to survive and thrive in the harshest of natural environments. (Didn’t allow them, however, to survive when European settlers arrived and began disrespecting and destroying their continent like greedy and rapacious madmen, BUT, that’s a rant for another day….)
Permaculture gardening [...]
Posted in Environment, Food, Sustainable Farming on Saturday, December 9, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I should make a blog category called “duh.” Articles with headlines such as this would get filed away there. Not to rant, but sometimes it boggles my mind that corporations make deadly chemicals to apply to OUR FOOD; farmers buy it without question and use it on OUR FOOD; and dumb consumers eat it, again [...]
Posted in Food on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I meant to mention earlier that the December Festival of the Trees is up at Arboreality. JLB did a magnificent job of researching and writing about all of the past month’s tree-related posts. Not that I would expect anything less!
Do check it out when you have some time to blog-surf….it’s really fabulous.
Posted in Food on Saturday, November 18, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I can’t even believe I’m writing an article about how to grow mushrooms. I’m much more suited to writing an article about how to wipe them off the face of the planet. BUT, since so many others do like them, I’m trying to be magnanimous here.
Posted in Food on Saturday, September 23, 2006 | 4 Comments »
It’s such a shame that I don’t have a digital camera to take pictures of today’s colorful farmers market haul from the Hope St. Farmers Market.
Posted in Food, Sustainable Farming on Monday, July 24, 2006 | 3 Comments »
A reader named Bill, from the Champlain Valley in Vermont, recently asked me for some information about starting a small blueberry farm in that area. For Bill and any other readers who are interested in blueberry farming, I put together a list of resources.
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