I’m not sure if it’s been the heat, allergies, or just plain old funk, but I haven’t been able to get much done the last few days. I’m supposed to be at the co-op right now, as I normally go volunteer there on sorting day.
Food is getting more and more expensive even there, but it’s […]
It’s been hot and humid here this week, rained twice, with some golf-ball sized hail the other night. Fortunately nothing got damaged. I’ve been under the weather (still not feeling all that well today), which is why I haven’t been posting.
My plants all seem smaller than usual for this time of year, I’m not sure […]
Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a very real food crisis
…There might be 11 million gardeners in Britain, but your delicious summer peas won’t go far when your kids are hungry and the baked beans have run out….
I hope all of you have made steps to feed yourselves, and have more than […]
Long day.
Harvested more snowpea pods, froze them. Also harvested lettuces and carrots. (oh, and weeds for the bunnies )
Went to the food co-op to help sort items, as today was delivery day. Worked there four hours, then came home and took Leon out to run around, then went and picked up our food.
I got […]
Yesterday was busy again… well, today was, too.
Harvested a lot of snow peapods. I have a quart bag full in the freezer now. I also am getting a collection of peas drying for seed for the fall.
The cutworm-eaten tomato tops haven’t survived. At least I started a lot of them.
Went shopping and found the material […]
Harvested lettuces, snow peas, and carrots. The romaine lettuce is getting really big.
Froze more snow pea pods (and peas). I braided the shallots I pulled the other day (click to enlarge):
They’re hanging near the stove right now.
Breakfast was quesadillas with regional tortillas and local sharp cheddar cheese; lunch for me was more of the same, […]
Today was warm and sunny again, and I had planned to have stir-fry tonight. So here’s the lovely stuff I harvested, all planted last fall (click picture to enlarge):
(a few peas as well; I almost have a quart bag full of frozen snow peas now)
The cool thing about this is that I haven’t planted one […]
So Sharon reminded me about this, and I’m not sure whether to do this on a weekly basis or a daily one. For me, daily makes more sense, seeing as this is a day to day thing.
But anyway, for this week, I –
Planted tomatoes, marigolds (bug control), peppers, and cucumbers
Harvested snowpeas, pea greens, lettuces, chard, […]
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last few months, you know that food supply has become an issue, and along with that there’s a lot of what one person called ‘free-floating panic’ out there.
On Sharon Astyk’s Sustainable Food Storage list (which I highly recommend, btw), a woman posed a question that I think […]
I figured out the numbers for April (except the water bill’s not in yet) for the Riot for Austerity challenge, and I got a nice surprise!
Here’s the numbers we started out with back in June 2007:
Gasoline: 59% of the American national average
Electricity: 425% (multiple computers, TV’s, and lights on all the time, in an almost […]
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