Our Fragile World
And it begins … my first garden update.
Now that some of the stuff inside has been completed, we are finally getting around to doing some work outside the house. While I like when things are finished inside, I am much more at home playing in the dirt! So, here is a little update of the things that we are doing to make … Continue reading
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins
I received thru the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program (you can read the review over there). The book made me think about planting more trees and more native trees. I have all ready purchased a number of native shrubs and small trees for our small yard, but I have been thinking about other things that I … Continue reading
Jefferson’s Garden
Jefferson’s Garden Over at Garden Rant they just posted about Jefferson’s Kitchen Garden and last night, I finished reading Peter Loewer’s Jefferson’s Garden which, after some introductory material about gardening during the period, the seed trade, and a profile of Jefferson as a farmer and gardener, profiles many of the plants that Jefferson grew and … Continue reading
Landscaping with Herbs
Rodale’s Essential Herbal Handbooks: Landscaping With Herbs written by Nancy Ondra is an interesting little book. It will tell you nothing about the use of the herbs recommended for planting. It will tell you very little about the cultivation of various herb varieties. It offers a number of very specific landscape designs that gardeners can either … Continue reading
Recent Read: Wicked Plants
Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart is entertaining but slightly disappointing! Interesting little book that provides some of the basic details about many poisonous plants, but don’t think that you will learn anything more than the basics from it. The illustrations are useful for identification and while scientific names are given, the descriptions are too vague to … Continue reading
More recent reads … fiction, fish, food, & foreign
Okay, it has been awhile since I have updated on what books I have recently been reading … The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver – Yes, for the first time in a really long time, I read a work of fiction that was written less than five decades ago! I read this book because we … Continue reading
Recent Reads … dogs, history, politics, food, and more
Amazon.com Widgets Whether it is a book about understanding dogs, the food system, the history of the AK, or something else, I enjoy reading a vast array of nonfiction. Here are my recently completed volumes, in no particular order: (Beware, it is not a short list.)
A Child’s Voice on Industrialized Food
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Big & Little Books of Heritage Vegetables
A couple of additional gardening books that I am currently reading … and The first book (Heirloom Vegetables: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Finding and Growing Vegetables from the Past) is an ideal beginners book. About half of the book concerns the reasons to grow heritage vegetables and some of the details about how to … Continue reading
Garden Update
Garden is doing well … And, we are starting to get a regular supply of items … we have gotten a handful of small tomatoes, these two squash, and one large tomato. But, from all of the fruit on the vines, we are going to have a lot of little tomatoes soon and probably 8-10 … Continue reading
