Transcription Series: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

[kettunainen]

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

Comments

[feonixrift]

I sometimes wonder what people think farms are like... Especially when they don't want to eat produce from the porch because there are gnats out there, and bugs and spiders and cats and... a cat coulda pooped on it! Not that one did, but it coulda! Yup, yup, that's just SO much dirtier than rats and coyotes and foxes and snakes and crows and owls and everything ELSE that happens on a farm. *headdesk*

[feonixrift]

I draw the line at eating dirt on purpose, personally, but I'll take a well-washed organic veggie even if it does have holes in the leaves.

[tamago23]

Huh. I too thought pineapples grew on trees. And this is from someone who has a seriously sizable balcony garden. :) I did know about the potatoes though, since I'd been interested in trying to grow them once I have more space.

[misslynx]

The potato thing reminds me of a certain ex-roommate of mine who, when starting a balcony garden for the first time, planted all kinds of huge plants like corn and sunflowers in teeny-tiny containers, based on the logic that they "grew mostly above the ground".