Archive for 'Garden'

Katherine Goldstein: Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In Video

Katherine Goldstein: Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In Video.
The new movie reminds me of Supersize Me, the excellent documentary about a guy who ate nothing but McDonald’s grub for a month. I haven’t seen Food, Inc. yet, but an issue that has bothered me for a long time is the way agribusiness has co-opted school [...]

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Gardening as a dangerous sport

Yesterday, I gashed the inside of my left ankle somehow while gardening in sandals. I thought I would be OK to rollerblade, but this morning, I skated around the Marina, and it was quite painful. Shuffling off  to the Alumni Skate Night now. Yikes!

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Garlic chips

Garlic chips

I had perhaps a hundred or so volunteer garlics growing in one of my deep beds, as well as scattered throughout my yard. I needed the space in my deep beds for my seedlings, but I didn’t want to toss the good garlic, even though it wasn’t fully matured. So, I dug it all up [...]

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