This has been one cold month so far! We even brought Attila the Bun, aka Mr. Bunners, inside several nights. The chickens huddled together in their well built coop and we figured they’d be fine. There is so much beauty in the ice and frost.
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December in the Chilly Garden
Posted in Growing, tagged cold, December, garden on December 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Late November Garden Tasks
Posted in Growing on November 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the chill all the recent sun has made being out in the garden a delight. This time of year the main tasks are continuing the early fall clean up, planting late bulbs and tucking tender plants in for the winter.
Le Moulin du Mas de Vaudoret: WWOOFing in Provence
Posted in Growing, People on the Move on November 18, 2013 | 1 Comment »
I’m back again to fill you in about my adventures through WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms), which I have decided to participate in during my “gap year” between high school and university. I wrote to you last from Scotland, where I stayed during the month of September in the beautiful hills of Glendevon. […]
The Boston Food Project
Posted in Growing, Policy on November 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On a warm sunny day we pulled up in front of a huge greenhouse right in the city of Boston. We had arrived at one of the growing sites of the Food Project. Walking into the greenhouse in Roxbury the smell of warm earth and growing things surrounded us as we listened to the story […]
Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Seafood
Posted in Growing on November 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I went on a food tour while in Boston and we visited an urban farm, a medicinal food service and a sustainable seafood retailer. Coming from landlocked Arizona I honestly haven’t thought a lot about seafood and how it is raised, caught and sold. Red’s Best focuses on the individual fisherman and how to ensure […]
Urban Agriculture Books Abound at Powell’s Bookstore
Posted in Cooking, Growing on September 30, 2013 | 1 Comment »
This weekend we went down to Portland, Oregon to visit cousins. The weather was fabulously rainy so I wound up spending many hours in the glorious bookstore, Powell’s, perusing books on urban agriculture. Here are some of the ones now on my wish list!
UW Farm Part Two
Posted in Growing on September 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I was walking around the Center for Urban Horticulture and saw what looked like fields of greens in the distance. As I came closer I found greens, tomatoes, squash, peppers and more! I had stumbled across the UW and Youth Garden W0rks farm.
UW Farm
Posted in Growing on September 20, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I have just started back to school to get a masters in public health at the University of Washington. After going through a good orientation session it was time to visit the UW Farm and see what was growing on there. In addition to the cobb pizza oven and innovative plantings it looks like they […]
Tomatoes
Posted in Growing, tagged tomatoes on September 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The tomatoes were a HUGE success and I mean huge. We planted a wide variety ranging from several big heirlooms to the ridiculously small and sweet cherry tomato. I arrived in Bellingham several hours before my roommate Max rolled in from a week-long road trip. All of them were green when he had left, so he […]
Cincinnati’s Community Garden Program
Posted in Growing, People on the Move on September 6, 2013 | 2 Comments »
On a recent visit to Cincinnati I stopped by the Civic Garden Center. I went in to ask a few questions and had the great luck to meet the community garden coordinator, Peter Huttiger, who introduced me to their program and some of the bountiful community gardens in the area. Here is the interview with Peter and […]
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