This book needs to go back to the library today -- can't renew it because other people have put holds on it. Glad I finished the book. It's amazing and I can't recommend it enough!

There are so many little excerpts from the book that I want to keep, so I thought I'd post them here, where I can share them with you.

Knowing how foods grow is to ( Read more... )

http://www.tcgn.ca/wiki/wiki.php?n=Events2009.SeedySaturdayOnSunday2010

Feb 21st, 2010
$2 or PWYC
12:30-6pm
Wychwood Barns

shbe got me thinking...

The world could really use some badass farmers these days, what with Monsanto fucking over, oh, THE SANCTITY OF LIFE ITSELF, with their organ-killing GMO, round-up ready monstrosities. Along with all the other woes of industrial agriculture.

I hope to see the Bloor Cinema showing of DIRT! tonight (6:30-8:30 $10-$20, sliding ( Read more... )

I got my Urban Harvest plant and seed catalog yesterday at the market, so the planning begins anew. I had started working last fall on what I wanted to do this spring, but, as it turns out, nearly everything I really wanted to try planting just does not grow well in this particular area, as it's simply too shady. So I'm working for a bit today ( Read more... )

N and I bought a deep red hollyhock yesterday and I transplanted it last night. A couple of nights before, N acquired a couple of milkweed plants from an area that was slated to be mowed, and he transplanted those... They're not doing too well, but hopefully they'll perk up soon ( Read more... )

I would like to mass edit every recipe in existence. Specifically, I want to change the phrase "cut off $part_of_food and discard" to "cut off $part_of_food and compost".

Because, seriously, that's a hell of a lot of food wasted needlessly ( Read more... )

I haven't checked out Crunchy Chicken's Blog in a while, but I did today and discovered that she has another blog that focuses on eco-friendly beauty products and practices.

Green Goddess DressingApparently, honey makes for a great facial cleanser and coconut oil is a FABulous eye-makeup remover. Huh. I'll have to try the honey sometime ( Read more... )

got Very Little sleep last night because the Smallest had a fever and was up ever 2 hours trembling and crying and needing to pee and nurse ( Read more... )

( yesterday )

We have been scouring craigslist and have scored about 30 cinderblocks, which we got last Friday ( Read more... )