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Experiencing Fresh Cacao

Photo by Gayla Trail On our third day in Cuba we took a trip organized by our hotel up into the Sierra Maestra mountains. There were a few different legs to the excursion, the first of which was a stop at around the halfway mark

Screw Pine (Pandanus utilis)

Photo by Gayla Trail If you've been to a tropical country you have probably come into contact with one of the many species of this tree, the Pandanus or Screw Pine. Although not a pine but commonly named for the spiral growth of the

Back from Cuba

tillandsia_cuba.jpg We're back! I've got a lot of email to get through, laundry to wash, and photos to organize so I'm not officially back to work until Monday but I couldn't wait to share a taste of the planty goodness experienced on this trip.

Okay, Let’s Try This Again

white_red.jpg So we were supposed to be in Cuba last week over the Holidays however our plane left without us, 11 hours prior to the originally scheduled departure time. Who has ever heard of such a thing? I certainly haven't but can tell you

The Horribly Late Roof Garden Clean Up That Never Was 2007

I desperately need to clean up my rooftop garden. Desperately. Double desperately. It's horrible how long I've let it got this year really. The warmer Fall temperatures were wonderfully evil and I just went with it pretending that Fall would continue forever. I rewarded myself

Rooftop Garden (July 2007)

1roofgarden_panoramic_jul07.jpg Panoramic of the Roof Garden July 21, 2007. The following was found in my archives and is dated for July 14.

At the Community Garden

1cg_aug07.jpg Lately, I have been receiving emails asking me to talk more about the community garden. I will admit that I am so horribly behind in writing about progress there that it's been difficult to know where to begin. So this morning

The Continuing Epic Saga of the Street Garden

Yesterday afternoon, while working on the garden, a woman stopped to chat and mentioned that she had seen my sad and pathetic sign (my words, not hers) and knew who had destroyed the day lilies. It was the dudes who change the advertising on the large

Operation Garden Terrorism

destruction.jpg The epic saga of sadness and destruction now dubbed Operation Garden Terrorism continues. Today I went outside to discover a patch of plants had been crushed along with two sections of the bamboo fence that we built in the early spring.

First Zucchini

firstzucchini.jpg I had big plans, HUGE PLANS, to use this post to write about exciting topics that were guaranteed to delight and amuse, but then we popped over to the community garden this evening to check on the first zucchini -- which you can guess
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