April 2010"This semester one of the goals of Alley Sprouts was to create a raised vegetable garden. Local Tallahassee Food Gardener, Nathan Ballentine also known as the Man in Overalls met with us in the alley to give a few pointers on how to create a successful food garden...." For the rest, click here.Or, to find out more about the Alley Spouts and their Get Green initiative, visit their blog....
Driving by, I peeked through the fence to look at a community garden that I set up a month and a half ago. Take a look. Warmth and sunshine does wonders for a newly planted garden. Wow: Notice the shallots, kale, collards, spinach, cabbage and lettuces. The tomatoes were recently planted in the back and have not yet popped up into view. Here's another angle: And folks worry about the aethetic...
Well, today's my birthday. I turned 25 years old. For the first nine months of my life, I didn't have a name. My parents were waiting for me to "tell them what my name should be." I was known as "Mr. Baby." For most of the next 23-24 years of my life, folks referred to me as Nathan. Though my aunt did call me Brian up until I was about 15 because she named me ahead of my parents and thought it...
If you're free on Thursday 4:30-6, stop by, make a sign and roadside with me to encourage other folks to food garden in Tallahassee. Bring a pitch fork or shovel if you've got one and a few dollars for the food bank. Or you could donate here. It's my birthday; hope you can make it.For the first person that cuts a check to Second Harvest of the Big Bendin front of me for $250, I'll install a 4x10...
I've been out of town the past two weeks, went up to North Carolina to keynote at a youth retreat and took the opportunity to make a road trip out of the deal. My partner, Mary Elizabeth (with whom I posed my Tallahasseean Gothicimages) and I took the opportunity to visit friends, mentors, and sites along the way. We stopped in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Asheville on the way north to Banner Elk,...