Like fresh, local foods? It doesn’t get any “localer” than homegrown! Here’s a pic from the Kitchen Garden Day potluck we organized yesterday with a few gardening friends from our neighborhood. I hope you also ate something great with some great people.
Reason #3267 for having a garden: delicious, juicy, colorful heirloom tomatoes
Here’s an home-grown hack for gardeners with teenagers: cure your onions on the playground equipment your kids stopped using years ago.
You can help us win a grant for $5000 for school and community gardens by voting for our entry in the Do Good Outdoors Contest. We’re currently in 2nd place so every vote counts. Voting closes at 3pm tomorrow, August 3rd so please vote now: http://outdoors.maker.good.is/projects/sow-it-forward
You can help us win a grant for $5000 for school and community gardens by voting for our entry in the Do Good Outdoors Contest. We’re currently in 2nd place so every vote counts. Voting closes at 3pm tomorrow, August 3rd so please vote now: http://outdoors.maker.good.is/projects/sow-it-forward
Our front yard garden petition is going nutty today thanks in part to a front page feature on the Huffington Post.
You can sign here: http://www.causes.com/causes/11991-plant-healthy-gardens-feed-a-hungry-world/actions/1667714
Another summer, another illegal front yard vegetable garden. This one just happens to be in Quebec and to be absolutely stunning. Please click the photo to sign the petition to help it from being torn down.
The suburban front yard of the future is already here as is clear from this picture from Drummondville, Quebec. Please like/share to inspire more people (including town code and planning officials) about just how beautiful and edible our future can be!
Gardener poll: What type of hair day are you having?
1) Good
2) Bad
3) Frisée
For more fun people and veggie photos like this, check out this photo exhibition (and book) running in Paris through the end of the year:
http://www.deslegumesetdeshommes.fr/index.php?lang=en
In case you’re wondering, the hairdo above is curly endive or “chicorée frisée” in French. Photo credit: Joelle Dollé
The good people at Environmental Working Group (EWG) has come out with its 2012 version of the “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” to educate folks about what crops tend to have the highest and lowest pesticide levels. I’m growing 11 of the 12 in my garden (no nectarines). Not bad for a garden in Maine!
Check out the accompanying EWG report here:
http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/
