Congratulations! 8lb, 1oz and 18 1/2″ long…pink banana squash! One astute commenter noted that my family’s probably not hurting for Vitamin A in our diets, what with the monster winter squash harvest this year. And it’s true, we’re awash in the things. It’s okay, really it is, especially since the school garden’s squash patch was [...]
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On winter squash…in winter
Posted in food, school garden, seeds on January 18, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Dark Days challenge, week one
Posted in Eat Local Challenge, school garden on November 15, 2009 | 12 Comments »
To start off this challenge with a big bang, how about a local dinner for 50? Granted, this dinner was in the works long before I signed up for the Challenge. As some of you may know, I am very involved with food and food issues at our daughter’s school. We have a garden, we [...]
On Moving Day
Posted in school garden, seeds on October 28, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Yesterday was Move the Squash Day. I left them to ripen/cure in the greenhouse for a couple of weeks, but the mice have developed a serious affinity to those of the pie pumpkin family so it’s in to the house they all go. Here’s a closer pic of the wheelbarrowload of blues. In here you’ll [...]
On Erdkinder
Posted in school garden on October 9, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Grape harvest with the Middle Schoolers Maria Montessori, when studying early adolescents, realized that there was much in the way to teaching them academics. Rapidly growing bodies and minds and the distractions associated with both made for some tough going book learning, so she figured out a way to “teach” these children by radically changing [...]
On being wrapped up
Posted in school garden, soapbox on September 19, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Some of the 150 pounds are dehydrated, some in salsa, some in jam, but most are still frozen for future snacks Passion is a curious thing. Its pursuit, on occasion, excludes all other things, and this can be a problem. I’m not doing any on-the-couch time, no analysis here, but my passion for good, real [...]
Sometimes the grass is not greener
Posted in school garden, seeds on August 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Galeux d’Eysenes and Triamble winter squashes I have now seen how the other half lives and I have decided I like where I live just fine, thank you. What could I possibly be talking about? It seems I complain, in about every third post, about my clay soil. Never again! I have had direct experience, [...]
On school snack: salsa
Posted in school garden on August 5, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Last night, two of my friends and I jostled for space in my small kitchen and made salsa for our children’s school’s snack program. In the foreground are six quart-sized bags of tomatillo salsa concentrate: they need another quart of chopped tomatoes to make salsa in the heat index that schoolkids will tolerate. Tomatillo-based salsas [...]
On being food renegades
Posted in food, politics, school garden, sweat on July 4, 2009 | 21 Comments »
The U.S.D.A. in its infinite wisdom pays farmers to NOT produce food. To keep the prices high, the consolidation of growers of (let’s give a relevant example) sour cherries all stick their fingers to the wind and decide how MUCH of their harvest to pick on a given year. This year, it’s 60%, which means [...]
Food preservation season has begun
Posted in school garden, soapbox on June 22, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Daikon radish pickles: RECIPE NOW IN COMMENTS Yes, it is that time of year again: big pots of boiling water on the stove, zero counterspace available due to all the green and fruity produce coming in the door. Interestingly, however, the preservation being done today (Saturday) is not being done for this family. No: the [...]
On starting new gardens
Posted in books, school garden, sweat on April 9, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Planting red set onions. Set onions (little bags of seed onions you’ll find at garden stores now) can be eaten at any size, and the greens can be eaten at any time too. They’ll never get as large as onions you grow from seed but they’ll do in a pinch. I thought I would give [...]
On school gardens
Posted in school garden on April 3, 2009 | 19 Comments »
That’s me pushing the wheelbarrow We’ve been busy lately, leaving me too busy to do much blogging! The school’s garden is up and running. This Thursday we had our first “Weed and Feed” event, which is simply a dinner picnic/gardening session. Some wonderful parents, teachers and their children helped to fill our 16 raised beds [...]
On manifest destiny
Posted in school garden, sweat on March 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
One big stack of work I told myself this weekend that I had no real expectations of garden-ly accomplishment. Instead of having this huge mental task list, I thought: why not ease up a bit on yourself and seek to strike off a few projects, and NOT get sad if you fall short of doing [...]
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