Every time I turn around, I learn about some new piece of the food movement. It's abuzz like nothing I've ever been apart of before.A few weeks ago, my mother brought home and showed me a box of triscuit crackers. On the back, there were three pictures.One picture showed a few people in a vegetable garden, and the other two depicted a single person tending container herb gardens in their window...
My buddy, John is always chiding me because-- though I wear overalls-- when it comes to sunrise, I am no farmer. My cousin's boyfriend jubilantly, regularly, invites me to join his "crack-of-noon" club. Well, I daresay, I'm not thatlate of a sleeper, but when Jason, who works at Tallahassee Nurseries told me last week that he woke every morning at five so he could get up, drink coffee, greet the...
From the cyber-vine, I hear that lots of folks are interested in neighborhood garden workshops. If you are such a person, please let me know. I'm willing to to help organize and/or teach such a workshop, but we've got to move quickly. Spring planting is upon us come the middle of March. I could be available on March 6th and/or the morning of the 13th to do a workshop.Starting in March, I plan...
Wind, ice, chance of snow, and I'm headed north. Brrr.This coming week, I'll be making a run to Atlanta in my little-truck-that-could for a community garden educational trip.* While in Atlanta, I plant to a) visit metro-area community gardens, b) attend a "Train the Trainer" workshop co-hosted by the American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) and the Atlanta Community Food Bank(ACFB), and,...
Revive the Victory GardenIn 1943, Americans planted over 20 million Victory Gardens, and the harvest accounted for nearly a third of all the vegetables consumed in the country that year. Emphasis was placed on making gardening a family or community effort -- not a drudgery, but a pastime...History of Food Gardening at the Whitehouse
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