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Flocks of geese honked their way over South Jordan. Darkness descended, crickets launched a countryside chorus—but nothing distracted the group listening to Heidi Williams and Patricia Messer, the Late Bloomin’ Heirloom tomato ladies.
What does food activist and gardener Roger Doiron want you to do with your yard? Eat it! He’s one of a handful of activists who organized a grassroots (or as he calls it, “carrot-roots”) movement to get us to look at the green space in our yards through different lenses.
To bawk or not to bawk, that is the question at our house right now. In a few weeks baby chicks will be invading the local seed and feed stores. Fluffy yellow armies of chickens are preparing for battle and my defenses are weak. I really want to grow me some chickens this year. I checked in with the feed store a while back to ask about acquiring chicks and the nice chick man encouraged me to arrive early and often because this year is a chick year, everybody wants some. It seems we’re not alone in our plans to start growing our own food and foul. I have been laid off for a while now and there is a fear in the back of my mind regarding what we’ll do about food if things get tight.
He says Julia Child recognized his spuds at Higgins in Portland
I took this video this summer at the farmer's market in Portland. This is Gene, "the potato man" from Joseph, Oregon, (5 hours northeast of Portland) and his son Patrick. Gene tells how Julia Child ate his potatoes at Higgins in Portland and recognized where they came from right off the batt. The father and son sell heirloom varieties of potatoes, garlic and carrots, among other veggies.
Doe and her two new babies
It takes a special kind of person to keep goats.
Goats are cute, friendly, and an enormous amount of fun. However, they are also destructive, moody, and (in)famously insatiable. Our friend George has not always been an avid capriphile (goat lover). It was my own husband who did the terrible deed of introducing George to these wonderfully sociable four-legged fiends.
There have only been a handful of experiences throughout my life that I've walked through with jaw-dropped, glazed eyes and maybe a touch of drool. Shadowing Bryce Winton Brown, founder of the Growe Foundation, was one of these experiences.
The mission of the Growe Foundation is to show elementary-aged kids how to cultivate healthy eating habits. I know, I know, what kid wouldn’t find this topic extremely boring? Why, kids who are actually CREATING the foods that lead to a healthy lifestyle, of course!
Sunday 8th March, 2009.
Weather:
The weather this week has been annoyingly changeable. Monday was a beautiful day, the sort of spring day that lulls us gardeners into a false sense of security (see problems with beans below!). With highs of 13°C, sunny cloudless skies and light winds, it really felt like spring was on the way. The rest of the week, however, descended into the usual squally showers of a normal early British spring. Temperatures have now dropped to 3°C during the day with frequent sleet and rain showers. Temperatures overnight are holding around zero, only two light frosts this week.
Diary:
The season around Nathan’s birthday always seems to be a time of change (Nathan is Scott’s eldest son and his birthday is in March.) By the first few days of March, the temperature has crept to above freezing during more days than not, and the sun, when we are lucky enough to see it, starts to beat with some real warmth.
Pretty Cow on the Hill at the Anton’s Farm
I live with my husband and two sons on 130 acres set in the central Maine backwoods. We have a horse, a few dairy cows, a pig, dogs, cats, and chickens coming out of our ears. There are geese, rabbits, a mouse and sometimes goats. Oxen to be trained. Cheese to be made. A huge garden to be planted; produce to can and freeze. Haying to be done. Oats to be sown. Eggs to be collected. Strawberries and raspberries to be weeded. Blueberries to be pruned. Butter to be churned. Maple trees to be tapped. Wood to be cut. Buildings to be built. And our house? Suspicious electricity, minimal drainage system, cold running water (and the cold was only fixed this year!) We take outdoor showers and swim in the pond with the goldfish and frogs. We live through our land and our land lives through us!
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