The Tallahassee Food Network is really pulling together a great slew of events. I will be at the Food Trucks Thursday evening; I'm coordinating the Community Garden Tour this Saturday; I'll attend the Food-O-Rama event at Kleman Plaza on Sunday, 1-6pm. Amidst that window, I'll most certainly be in attendance from 3-5pm at Tallahassee Food Network's Youth Symposium on Food and Hunger, organized...
Had to get a kitchen scale at Panhandlers Kitchen Supply today because my lettuce is ready for the eating and I want to document my harvest.
Bought a kitchen scale today. For the past two+ years I've been in business, folks have asked me, "But how much can I expect to grow in such-and-such a garden?" I've answered with my own experiences, with rough estimates of numbers of heads of lettuce,...
A few links and pictures of interest:Tallahassee Food Network A Growing Hub of Tallahassee's food movement & the site to visit for all the details on Tallahassee-area Food Day ActivitiesTallahassee Community Gardening Program Get your neighbors together, start a community garden on city landGrow to Learn NYC Awesome NYC-based school garden programGrow the PlanetSuper cool...
It's that time of year: Folks ask me what I've been up to, and my consistent response is: "Gardens, gardens, gardens." Whether building and planting raised beds for folks who purchased Future Garden Coupons or top-dressing and replanting with repeat customers, it's a wonderful whirlwind of business and plant growth. Here's a couple few pictures from the past week:
Wendell, Nathan, and Bill - Piney...
Over the July 4th holiday, I made it to Asheville to visit a friend from college. While in town, I snuck by Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church where I used to serve as a youth adviser. Rumor had it, they'd started an amazing garden smack-dab in the middle of their front lawn. Rumor was true.
They have ten 5ft beds that reach 60 to 100ft. In other words, they've got a 4000sq.ft. food garden in...