Monthly Archives: August 2010
The Coming Famine
Here’s another book to add to my list: The Coming Famine, by Julian Cribb. Mark Bittman reviewed it for the NY Times today. Basically, Cribb contends that we’ve reached peak food production (along with peak oil), and warns that our … Continue reading
The New Normal
Various economists are referring to this extremely slow “recovery” as The New Normal. Economy aside, I can’t think of a better phrase to describe our crazy summer of working, volunteering, gardening, and now a frenetic preserving and preparing for our … Continue reading
Filed under Cooking and baking, Permaculture, Practical, Theoretical, Yeast/Fermentation
No-mow grass
A few weeks ago, I took a mid-summer Master Gardener refresher course at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Bob Mugaas, the awesome turf-grass guy from the U of M, gave a presentation about new no-mow landscape grasses that the university is … Continue reading
An inexpensive trellis
Here’s something we meant to do in April but didn’t get around to until this week. We’ve been trying to come up with a relatively inexpensive trellis system for our garden. Part of the impetus was the grape plant that … Continue reading
Cabbage!
I am super excited about the first cabbage I’ve ever harvested from my own garden. There’s just something cool about watching such a substantial vegetable develop from a tiny seed. And then eating it. A pretty good-sized head of cabbage, … Continue reading
