For all the years I have grown a garden, at home when I was a kid, on a sunny balcony in containers, in my own little slice of urban yard, I have learned a lot, mostly by trial and error but also through reading and talking to people. And I know there is so much …
Category: Climate Emergency
The Only Way is Through
Today is the last day of my vacation. Sadly I didn’t achieve that relaxed vacation feeling until sometime in the middle of Saturday afternoon. In spite of all the wonderful mornings gardening, I was just so wound up that it took forever to chip it all away, and now that I’m ready to have a …
Feed Me
You have, no doubt, noticed prices going up for all sorts of things. Last week James and I went grocery shopping and because we buy only organic and fair trade we are used to paying a little more for certain things. But inflation is biting into the organic market too these days. Generally we buy …
All Effed Up But Everything’s Fine
This has been a really fucked up couple of weeks. There is the heatwave in India and Pakistan that no one in the mainstream media is talking about, and if they do, it’s mentioned like a verbal shrug, implying that it doesn’t really matter because it’s over there, and climate change is a factor but …
Earth Day
Hello Friends. Happy belated Earth Day! Yeah, I know, every day is Earth Day, and it seems silly to have a designated day. But, I’m increasingly of the belief that special days are good to have for celebrations and to mark occasions or call attention to something. And since in our current world flavor, Earth …
