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Continue reading →: Two Months Later
…and the garden craziness is finally subsiding. We had our first early harvest of bok choi, and the baby spinaches are going to be ready soon. In addition, I found a treat growing near the compost pile: chamomile! The first flush of blooms are currently drying out on the kitchen…
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Continue reading →: Enter the Pac Choi!
The community garden is rumbling along at its own steady pace. The past weekend was a bit frantic, trying to get the field prepped for tilling on Monday, but we squeaked through, pulling out the last of the winter “rock crop” just as Bob C. arrived with his tractor. Our…
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Continue reading →: Spring Happenings
Already spring is moving right along. We started seeds for the community garden last weekend, both indoors and out. Cold weather crops of spinach, kale, and peas were sown in the raised beds, while chard and parsley seeds nestled down into warm peat pellets. And today we finished adding urea…
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Continue reading →: Meet Scooby
Thanks to my very thoughtful hubby, I am now the proud owner of my very own SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast). With any luck, in less than a month’s time Scooby here will produce a gallon of kombucha for our family (and possibly neighbors, depending on how fast…
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Continue reading →: [NYNY] Wheel of Morality…
I’d like to begin this summation with my all-time favorite fortune cookie message: Now is the time to make circles with mints, do not haste any longer. Aside from the fact that something was clearly lost in translation, the message is strangely applicable to this whole grand experiment. Don’t rush,…







