OK, so tomatoes that have been outside and are brought inside to attempt to continue their lives throughout the winter in a nice sunny location is a bad idea…a really bad, gross, bug infested idea. Truth. Judy was right, it’s a good idea in theory and the pictures in the magazine looked promising, but it can go downhill very quickly.…
As I have been reviewing my coursework and preparing for graduation I came across an assignment I did for my Ecopsychology course. For this exercise, I was asked to imagine that it was 30 years into the future, 2042, and we were well on our way to a much healthier planet and way of life…we were living in a…
This was a big tomato year for us. Not only did we plant more tomatoes than ever before, our yields were huge! When all was said and done, we’d harvested ~170 pounds of tomatoes from 18 plants! For the first time we were able to eat fresh tomatoes for six months straight (our first harvest was a Yellow Taxi on…
While I have been a bit quiet in this space recently, it isn’t for lack of happenings, it’s been for lack of actual, physical, time, energy and brain power. I am right in the throes of my own personal end-of-my-final-semester-crunch. The 16 hours I chose to take this semester has culminated into many late nights and early mornings as I…
I remember watching my mom crochet when I was tiny. I would watch the yarn slide through her fingers and her hook do a little dance and, in the end, there would be a beautiful blanket where a ball of yarn used to be. My mom taught me how to crochet when I was still pretty little…maybe six or seven,…
Births by Pablo Neruda We will never remember dying. We were so patient about being, noting down the numbers, the days, the years and the months, the hair, the mouths we kissed, but that moment of dying: we surrender it without a note, we give it to others as remembrance, or we give it simply to water, to water, to air,…
