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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.
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.
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