I’m planting carrots, parsnips, spring onions, and beetroot, all by my standard method. The floods really knocked all my root crops around so I’m keen to get a new round in. However my main job this week is to refresh the strawberry patch.
I have been mulling over which of my food hates to target this year. It’s not an easy decision. I have a few of them. It’s not that I am a purist – hey I’m a great believer in fairy floss at a fete and I’ve even been known to stop at McDonalds for coffee at 6 am. But industrialised fake food deceptively marketed as real food sets me off on…
I’m picking sweet corn in my garden at the moment, and even if you aren’t growing it, you should be able to find it in season at your local Farmers’ Market. This is my favourite breakfast at the moment.
We celebrated New Year’s Eve at a barbeque with neighbours. It’s one of the things I love about living in a functioning community – socialising within walking distance. I could go on about greenhouse footprints but really it’s enough that I can drink half a bottle of red wine and wander home in the starlight wishing happy New Year to the owlet nightjar that lives on the way!
Today is my blogiversary. This time last year, I had just finished helping sew together the quilt we made as a community project, as part of the 350 campaign to highlight 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as the threshold to safe levels.
There is a beautiful article in The Huffington Post today, by Rebecca Solnit. I have to quote you a few lines from it: The Iceberg…
The longest day, the shortest night, the night of midsummer dreaming. In these longest days it is easy to get wrapped up, carried away, with projects and plans. It is easy to get to runaway speed especially in Australia where the Christmas holidays fall on the midsummer solstice (and not the traditional midwinter one). It is good to take a moment to remember to relax and enjoy life. It is…