I’m pretty excited about a story assignment I got today from Edible Boston Magazine (“Celebrating the Abundance of Local Foods, Season by Season”). It’s a feature on a family-owned, local organic farm south of Boston that utilizes solely local high school and college students as labor during the summer. A NYT article last week details [...]
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30 May
earth and earthworm; 5 years
When I garden, earth and earthworm pass between my fingers and I realize that I am made of the same stuff. When I pinch the cucumber vine and the water drips from the capillaries to soil, I can feel the blood coursing through my body. Man is a microcosm in whose flesh resonates and reverberates [...]
9 May
Random bits
I’m tired, but the good kind of tired. The kind of tired where you’ve been working hard outside and in the garden, haven’t showered in a few days, and have a killer farmer’s tan. The last few gorgeous days, we’ve seen our little neighborhood block come to life — neighbors helping neigbors dig up ugly [...]
3 May
Pregnant with expectation
It’s May, and Spring has officially arrived in New England. We’ve been enjoying the beauty and new life of the season, both farther and closer to home, as well as in our garden. Yesterday, we rented a car and hit the highway driving north to Beverly, where we volunteered for the morning with a co-worker [...]
29 Apr
Why Gardening? #1: Eden.
What was Paradise? but a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure, and nothing there but delights. — William Lawson The three major monotheistic religions trace their ancestry back to an almost unbelievable story in which the Earth consists of two human beings living in communion with their creator in a garden, [...]
23 Apr
Recession Garden
Just saw this news story, and it made me smile. My only question, though, is why it takes a recession to get people of faith thinking creatively? I’m not sure we’ll ever know… Struggling church members plant recession garden The Associated Press Posted: 04/20/2009 11:35:51 AM PDT BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—A Bakersfield church is helping members who [...]
19 Apr
First seeds in the ground
Today was a great day, mostly because we had a couple opportunities to participate in shared projects with our neighbors. We highly recommend it for you, by the way. It started by taking a drive with some friends to buy a composting bin. (see above) We came home and joined many of our neighbors already [...]
17 Apr
Spring/Summer Theme: A Boston Garden
We have a garden. It’s an 8×4′ rectangle made of wood and filled with four plastic bins of fresh composted soil. A local non-profit, The Food Project (whose mission is to create personal and social change through sustainable agriculture … check them out!), takes urban youth around the city building these raised-bed garden plots and [...]
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