Foodroom Gardening: No Rows, No Woes
I keep trying to imagine a future time when all human beings would be responsible for their basic food necessities just as they are responsible for their own bodily cleanliness and cooking meals.
gardening
Off with their heads: mowing with a European scythe
This year I learned how to use a European scythe for mowing and trimming.
Three Weeds You Can Eat
When I’m out weeding, I’m foraging as well.
Planet Code Red
The amount of carbon we can burn and still have a safe climate is zero. One Australian calls it Code Red, time for emergency action. Plus new science on why New York City will flood again and again. Guests David Spratt and Dr. Stefan Talke, plus special on gardening in extreme heat with Marjory Wildcraft.
Travelholics Anonymous
Farming and gardening have a beneficial effect on society beyond providing food. They make staying at home a pleasure. They could become an effective treatment for travelholism, the affliction that affects people who can’t stop travelling.
Gardening for peanuts
If you have a long enough season, consider growing peanuts. Here’s how I grew, dried, and roasted last year’s crop.
Questions for garden crops to answer in 2014
The dialogue I’m conducting with my garden includes these questions that I’m asking the crops to answer for me.
The Autonomous Apple Tasters Collective
2013 saw a lot of successful gardening and foraging projects, and none were quite as fun to participate in as the apple harvest has been.
City Bees, Country Bees: Part 2
Honeybees are not the only ones in trouble–bumblebees are too.
Garden update: catching up after a late start
The first results of this year’s scientific dialogue with my garden are in and are shared herein.
Science as Dialogue: What My Garden and I Are Discussing in 2013
How I’m using the scientific method to learn how to grow the most food possible in my backyard, and how other people can do so as well.
There’s No Emergency Room for a Planet
…most of us living in wealthy nations know, somewhere deep-down, that if something bad happens to us that there’ll be something and/or someone to take care of us…