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,...
Once you delve into the emerging food movement, it's amazing how much there is to it, how fast it's growing and how much potential it holds.In the past hour, I received an email from my father containing a link to "Garden Girl TV" with Patti Moreno, talked with a man that lives on Wakulla Springs road that has a one acre property on which he hopes to establish "an active edible landscape with...
What a gorgeous day to work on a food garden! I hear it'd gonna rain again, and some coolness will follow. But for the time being, we get to bask in the glory of early March warmth. Didn't even have to burn the woodstove tonight.A new Square Foot Gardenfor Candie and Don. Per their requests: Tomatoes (Better Boy, Early Girl, Heritage), bell peppers, banana peppers, eggplant, green (snap) beans,...
People invite me to their houses to for me to offer ideas and advice and/or to scout out sites for where I'll place their new Square Foot Gardens... and every now-and-again, they ask, "So is this all you do?" This question always makes me smile.I know (I assume) this question originates from intrigue. How cool, they must think, I'm able to keep busy just doing food gardens. If they only knew......