In frost free areas we’re blessed to be able to grow tropical food plants in the summer and better known European style veggies in the winter. This time of year, spring, is especially abundant with its overlap between the cool weather and hot weather plants. This post shares pics and links to info for a small selection of food plants from our garden.
There’s a reason why the words “food crisis” are making headlines, and it might not be the reason you think. Also in this post: three other random, hopeful things.
Sometimes change asks more of us than we have to give, and we break. Sometimes we recover, but whether we recover or not, there is no going back to what we were before the change. We’re transformed us, forever, into something different than we were before. Here’s why I feel that this degree of change is upon us collectively now, and why I feel hopeful even in the midst of all that’s happening around the world.
The success of your food garden depends on the connections between the plants and each other, and between the plants, you, and your kitchen (and also your medicine cabinet).
Real food is more expensive than supermarket food if you measure only in dollars. But to measure something you have to isolate it from the other things it relates to, which reduces it to a limp, disconnected copy of itself. Real food that’s still connected to the rest of life provides us with some kinds of nourishment that supermarket food can’t.
Assuming you’re eating the healthiest plant foods, grown in the healthiest soil, that you can find or afford, what else can you do to increase your mineral intake without using pills?
Minerals are essential to life, but they’ve become dramatically less available to us in the food we eat. This article explores why.
Wild edibles (aka weeds) provide better nutrition than supermarkets ever can, for free.
How I got from “I don’t think I could grow brassicas,” to “Ooh look – a cauliflower!”
At the supermarket you can get everything you need at one location and it’s cheaper than anywhere else. But when it seems too good to be true, there’s usually a catch. In this article we’ll explore the complex web of connections and consequences attached to the cheap convenience on the supermarket shelves.