I think the subject of food seems daunting because there are so many different questions, so many different problems. And that’s something that really compelled me about writing this book. I love to start with a huge unanswerable boggling kind of question and see if I can whittle it down into the shape of [...]
Archive for July, 2007
~ The ethics of eating (interview with Barbara Kingsolver)
Posted in Books on July 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
~ I don’t like living in a dirty town
Posted in Rural longings on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is the context of my urban garden this summer: Canada Line construction (and Cambie Street deconstruction and worst of all, merchant devastation) one block to the east; high-rise condo construction 1/2 block to the west; busy alley less than 50 feet from my balcony. Tearing down and building up, digging holes and filling holes, [...]
~ Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI)
Posted in KGI, Learning, Photography, Recipes on July 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Have you subscribed to the KGI newsletter yet? I received the latest edition this morning. I really need to stop checking my email before I start gardening. I’m doing a clean-up today — eventually — but the newsletter looked too luscious to save until the evening so I’ve sampled some of the contents. Who [...]
~ Nurturing courage and creativity
Posted in Inspiration on July 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Do you need inspiration? Encouragement? Perhaps to create your magnum opus? Or, to try yet again to grow your dream garden?
Look no further than this small and beautiful zine by jen lemen:
I received my eagerly-awaited copy in the mail yesterday. It will occupy the dining room table for some time — perhaps indefinitely — so [...]
~ Summer Poetry
Posted in Poetry on July 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Some people eat ice cream or drink iced tea, some go swimming, and others nap on a blanket under a shady tree — and I enjoy these pleasures, too — but lately, I’ve been seeking relief from the heat (and to be honest, other stresses) by reading poetry.
Here is a selective sample of poems I [...]
What I’m reading
Posted in Inspiration, Learning on July 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Books and websites such as these (1, 2, 3) have inspired me to try to eat seasonally, locally, mindfully and sustainably by transforming my balcony from an ornamental to an edible garden and myself from a gardener to a farmer (although I think I can be both).
I have so much to learn. In my quest [...]
Sowing seeds in July
Posted in Planting on July 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am wilting in the heat today, but according to Linda Gilkeson’s calendar shared at the Seedy Solstice Talk, early July is the right time to think about planting these winter crops:
carrots, beets, rutabagas, endive, radicchio, Swiss chard/leaf beet and kohlrabi.
I’m contemplating growing After looking at this photo, I’ve decided to grow Bright Lights [...]
thank you
Posted in Poetry on July 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
–e.e. cummings
i thank you, jen lemen, for introducing me to this perfect poem tonight
Happy Canada Day, July 1
Posted in Photography on July 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In celebration, I am posting links to Flickr photos of all the provincial and territorial flowers. (Note: none are edible, although the Pitcher Plant might like to eat you–it is a carnivore.)
British Columbia
Cornus nuttallii Pacific Dogwood
Alberta
Rosa acicularis Wild Rose
Saskatchewan
Lillium philadelphicum Western Red Lily
Manitoba
Anemone patens Prairie Crocus
Ontario
Trillium grandiflorum White Trillium
Quebec
Iris [...]
