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Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
on Oct 8, 2008 in back to the land community garden survival You know that time between really waking and not quite still sleeping.. that seems to be the time that I remember dreams best... Well I woke from a strange one this morning. It seemed that the city decided that home gardens needed to be permitted. Wi...
Making Connections
on Oct 22, 2008 in family farm nutrition community garden organic garden self-reliance local food food prices survival Oooo I have discovered another great site which to my way of thinking speaks to some of the "whys" of the grow your own food movement. The site is Slow Movement and has fabulous food for thought! Check it out!Here is their take on "How to make the...
Spring Dreams
on Dec 19, 2008 in community garden spring seed porn gardening Some people dream about dancing sugar plums (what IS a sugar plum?), me, I get all hot and bothered when my rareseeds.com catalog arrives. Ah, seed porn.Even if I don't grow it, I do buy it. And I buy the unusual stuff. See, by the miracle of my new...
Day One: Starting a Community Garden
on Dec 31, 2008 in why garden step one community garden I am not a gardener (this is not a photo of my garden). I skimmed Square Foot Gardener last year and had a few container gardens do okay. I made mistakes; not enough sun, broccoli eaten by cabbage worms, wrong things planted together, things planted...
out with the old!
on Jan 6, 2009 in community garden herbs happy new year! 2008 was quite a year for me - i started roller derby, which created a huge subset of new adventures and general lifestyle changes, i went to san diego, we went to new york, we moved back to portland, i've had two temporary jobs, bar...