More scenes from the July garden

Poppies! The one non-food item in my garden. I absolutely love them.

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Random July garden images

Long time no blog…it’s summer after all. Garden updates abound. I usually hate photo-heavy posts. In fact I don’t recall making a post before with this many photos but in this case the pics are worth a whole bunch of words. First, a before/after view of my plot. Below taken June 20:

And from a different [...]

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Suck it, Whole Foods!

Er….the headline I really meant to write was “First Harvest.” But, sorry Whole Paycheck Foods, I will not be needing your services as much now that I am beginning to reap the bounty from my wonderful little community garden plot at Fox Point Community Garden, and now that the Downtown Providence Farmers’ Market where I [...]

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Fox Point Community Garden

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.

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Update on plot 94!

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 [...]

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Plot 94

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 [...]

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Experts urge fruit growers to use pesticide alternatives

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 [...]

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Local Thanksgiving meal: the sequel

Well, after all the hype of the local Thanksgiving meal, Curt and I were invited to a friend’s house for dinner, and it seemed like too fun to pass up since our meal this year was going to be just the two of us. I knew when we accepted the invitation that the meal wouldn’t [...]

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Local Thanksgiving meal update

I went to the farmers market this weekend to see what sorts of food would be available because I wanted to get as much local food as I could to make a local Thanksgiving meal. I had low expectations to be honest, but I was surprised by the amount and variety of food that was [...]

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Local, organic, sustainable, or ????

What would the lead-up to Thanksgiving be like without an appeal from Earth Friendly Gardening to eat locally produced food? Why, it probably wouldn’t feel like Thanksgiving at all! So I’ll draw your attention to an article published in yesterday’s New York Times.

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Blog review: Kitchen Gardeners International

Recently I learned about Kitchen Gardeners International, a non-profit organization based in Maine that’s focused on bringing “greater levels of food self-reliance” to global communities and individuals. They do this by promoting kitchen gardening, home cooking, and sustainable local food systems. KGI’s programs include International Kitchen Garden Day, an email newsletter, and a public awareness [...]

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Ease up on produce farmers

In today’s New York Times. Nina Planck writes a good article about the E.coli outbreak due to eating raw spinach from California. She makes some excellent points, worth discussing here.

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Blueberry farming in Vermont

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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Why eat local?

In my last post, I explained that because Rhode Island farmers had been hit hard by the excessive rain that we’ve had this summer, it was more important than ever to support them. In this post, I’ll elaborate on other economic, environmental, and health-related reasons to eat local food.

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Local farmers feeling the effects of too much rain

An interesting article in today’s Providence Journal describes the effects of our rainy spring and summer on local crops. Sorry if the ProJo makes you register; I’ll include the most important snips so you’re not forced to register with them.
Here’s the paper’s succinct description of what’s happened here so far this summer:
With more than 16 [...]

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