The Guy From the Front Yard Sat Down With a President
Kevin Espiritu toured the new Obama Presidential Center’s edible gardens with President Obama. On the Eleanor Roosevelt garden, Victory Gardens, and a little hope.
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How I Became the Person Who Named My Food Recycler
Let me tell you about Millicent. Millicent lives in my garage, next to the door to the house and the glass recycling bin. She is white and rounded and about the size of a regular trash can – think one of those fancy simplehuman cans that a lot of people have in their kitchens –…
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My Last Seed Order of the Season
The garden is currently covered in a rare Georgia snow. But I’m dreaming of spring and summer already. 31 Packs of Seeds and a $79 Discount Burpee’s BOGO seed pack sale ended this past weekend, and I took full advantage. 31 packs of seeds. A whopping $79 discount on my order. Overly ambitious? Probably yes,…
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Garden Planning Season: Seeds, Dreams, and My Helper
As I write this, it’s pouring down rain outside. And it’s WARM. I’m still salty about the fact that it’s January and we have daytime temperatures in the 70s. I really want some winter weather before winter is over. But it is mid-January. Seed catalogs have been flooding the mailbox since before Thanksgiving, and I’ve…
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What I’ve Been Up To: The Garden
It’s been a whole while since I’ve posted here; not for lack of cooking or ideas, but for lack of time. The past 3 months have been packed with things that had to be done, even if they weren’t the fun things. Things like unpacking, decluttering, paring down, but also things like medical appointments, follow-ups…
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2022 Garden Plans
The seed catalogs and garden catalogs are starting to show up in my mailbox and it’s making me excited about the coming year and some of the things we have planned to do around the property! Last year was our “discovery” year, so most of our projects were of the “clean up and prep” variety….
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Building The Barn: A Garden Shed Story
Let me tell you about the time I thought I was going to have to convince Zach to let me build a garden shed, and how spectacularly that didn’t go the way I expected. The Setup I had my whole strategy worked out. I was going to tell Zach that we needed a garden shed….
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New House, New Garden, New Food!
No apologies for leaving this blog dormant for so long; instead I’m just going to jump right back in with updates and posts. There’s been a lot of change over the last year and it’s time to start documenting and posting and adding the “life” part to this food and life blog. So many things…
