Outrageous Gardens!

"May I become an inexhaustible treasure for those who are poor and destitute…"

   Nov 10

“The gods must think we’re crazy!”

What a delightful story from Kitchen Gardeners International that warmed the seedlings in my straw bale garden when I read it to them. From Roger Doiron, comes this timely piece about a rather unusual but very “outrageous garden” in Berlin, Germany. With not one tilled inch to be found. (Now comes the part where I [...]

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   Jul 19

Growing food–Missouri style!

It’s been a wild and crazy year in the garden–cool early summer in Albuquerque and now blistering hot. I’ve traveled to the midwest and back and while some of my plants withered while I was gone, I have the fall garden to look forward to.  Three season gardening should become the norm rather than remain [...]

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   May 01

Swine flu: why are we so surprised?

I have long agitated whenever given the chance, against any type of factory farming–animal or grain or vegetable or fruit. WHY? Because of the statistical probability of failure and disease.  Why are so many of us gravitating toward locally produced, organic food? We know that on so many levels it’s better for us. By the [...]

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