It’s 90F degrees today. On the ninth of October! I should be outside in my ragged blue sweatshirt, stacking firewood, and feeling that brisk, back-to-school feeling that makes autumn feel hopeful even though the summer foliage is dying. I should be chopping up the remains of my garden to dig into the soil, dreaming of [...]
Since my own desktop is often decorated with downloaded photographs, it only seems fair to share and share alike. Here are some extreme closeups from my garden. Click the thumbnails to see them in their full-screen glory. (I used the screen resolution used by most blog visitors. Just let me know if you’d like another [...]
…It’s too too hot to think clearly about the kinds of things I’ve been posting about lately. So, let’s escape to the garden, shall we?
Here’s a psychedelic song to listen to while perusing these pics of my garden. It’s Caetano Veloso singing Lost in the Paradise [mp3 expired], which is featured on the Soul Jazz [...]
I’ve noticed that quite a few people are finding this blog while looking for tips on veganic gardening, so I guess I’d better follow up my post on cruelty-free gardening with a few more helpful hints. In that post, I focused on soil amendments, giving suggestions for alternatives to animal-based fertilizers. Now, I’ll cover the [...]
“We hate dandelions.”
That’s what the lady on the television says in one of those commercials for the suburban WMDs known as “weed killers.” She seems like a nice lady and pretty normal, so I wonder what the dandelions could have done to make her so mad?
I mean “mad” in both senses of the term: Angry [...]
“Why did you move there in the first place?” people often ask when hearing the story of how we accidentaly started a chicken sanctuary in the middle of poultry country. I never can answer the question adequately, but one factor was gardening. When I worked as a tenant organizer in Ann Arbor, I started a [...]
