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City Farming — New York Mag Article

In a recent New York Magazine feature entitled "My Empire of Dirt", writer Manny Howard takes on the arduous task of growing a farm, complete with flora and fauna in his Brooklyn backyard to explore just what is involved in trying to feed himself locally for one

Making Low-Sugar Pepper Jelly

pepperjelly.jpg With both the gardens and the Farmer's Market in abundance these days, it's become canning central around here. I'm on a personal mission to find a use for just about everything. Last weekend was the whole 50 pounds of tomatoes insanity

Love to Hate: Cosmos

cosmos_polaroid_sm.jpg Let's all agree right now to stop pretending to hate cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) and (Cosmos sulphureus). Let's agree to stop telling ourselves we are too good for it. Or that it's too easy. Let's agree to admit right here, right now

City Razes Garden

I walked outside the other day, into the street garden with scissors in hand to clip some flowers intended for the host of a party I was attending. As I bent over to snip a few Black-eyed Susan stems I discovered that the flowers were completely gone.

Food That Hardly Travels at All

rooftop_foodcontainers.jpg A friend pointed me to this opinion piece in the New York Times that looks at the Eat Local concept as a way to mark environmental impact in food production. The article describes a New Zealand study that challenges the assumption that

Mexican Sour Gherkin

mexicansourgherkin.jpg Adorably teeny tiny Mexican Sour Gherkins (Melothria scabra) are starting to pop up all over the vines I've got growing at my community garden plot. The fruit in the picture is about half and inch or so and should be approximately 1-2" when

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.

Blogher Conference

Are you going to be attending the Blogher conference in Chicago next week? If you are say hi. I'll be moderating a panel discussion on visual blogging with a talented group of woman as well as doing a book signing (day and time TBA). Here's the

Domino Interview

"I don't promote myself as an authority. I'm a person who really, really loves to garden. I know a thing or two but there is a ton I don't know and will probably never know. I make mistakes. I experiment like crazy. I don't have all of the

Contest!

I'm way behind on a lot of things including getting a new contest happening around here. This one is as easy and lazy as a hot summer afternoon. All you need to do is sign yourself up for the newsletter/mailing list (the box is located to
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