Local Food: Our humble garden
(Learn about these droplets on the collard green above at Humble Garden) Don’t forget! We are also blogging about our new all organic sustainable grown raised bed garden over at Humble Garden. I will be updating there soon with some photos on our new alternative-style potato beds and also the trellis system I am putting...
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This blog has given birth! Naturally and organically.
I would like to announce the birth of a bouncing baby blog, The Humble Garden. My Garden Project page has grown too cumbersome so it was time to deliver it into the world. You can watch as we build our garden from the ground up and then as we grow all year round. I invite...
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Green Lust: Starved for photons and chlorophil
Its April 4th and we woke up to a frozen rime coating our land, car, and anything that slowed down long enough to freeze. The robins were super fluffy as they tried to warm up (poikilothermy is an awesome thing) and find a frozen seed or two amongst our weed patches. I am starving for...
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Local Foods – My Very Own Lettuce
(Image Source: Wish-Bone) In a previous post I shared some shots of my deck garden. I felt that I didn’t have enough space to plant much lettuce and was rather bummed. I stood outside for a bit the other day and realized that some of the junk in my yard would make for a lovely...
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Local foods – Organic deck garden 2006
This is super local! Its our deck. We have planted with only organic materials this year. The soil bag said to not use it to start seeds but we did and they are sprouting fine. These are the same 96 cent planters I modified last year for upside down tomatoes but this year they will...
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A Look to Tomorrow – Edible Beauty
I just wanted to tease you on what I have coming up for tomorrow. With the help of a large group of extremely talented and generous food photographers at Flickr, I will be presenting a pictorial round up on Wagashi (Japanese Tea Confections). My objective is to share with you the stunning beauty of these...
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