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Damp Sand
Today in the garden, I was thinking about the future. Back in the mid-to-late-20th Century, the future looked mechanical. Food would come in powders or capsules, dispensed by machine. The vision was of a more manufactured, less natural world where the … Continue reading
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Huckleberries
The first experiment in this year’s garden was zapallito, and the second was huckleberry bushes. I’m not much of a pie person, but when I read the post on My Communal Table about huckleberry pie, I was intrigued. The gift … Continue reading
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Midsummer Salad
Just had to post this to prove that miracles do happen (or global warming is worse than we thought). This salad I had for dinner last night does indeed have two cherry tomatoes on it from the garden. Tomatoes in June … Continue reading
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Gardening Consequences
When you read stories about people gardening, often it’s this idyllic picture of a grandmother and child or mother and child going out to the garden and picking and eating things right off the vine. Tomatoes bursting in their mouth. … Continue reading
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Easter Ham (2)
We hosted Easter again this year, and it has become one of my favorite days of the year. Everyone comes, so we have a crowd of more than 30 people. We’ve found spaces to seat 28 at tables, and a … Continue reading
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Fettuccine with Ricotta, Spinach and Duck Egg
A couple of nights ago I started watching the TED lecture videos on food that are now available through Netflix. (That’s a 21st century sentence if I ever read one…) I watched Mark Bittman and several others talking about being a … Continue reading
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Stuck
My husband bought this truck last week from a man who is stuck. He is in his late 40s and within five minutes of meeting him, he was telling us about his son’s suicide four years ago. His son, an … Continue reading
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Winter Drought
Today, yes, March 14, 2012, not EVEN the Ides of March yet, and it’s going to easily top 70 degrees in St. Cloud. The one snowcover we had (coming in March) is completely gone, last night we saw about 12 … Continue reading
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6:35, February 29, 2012
Today was like a bonus, a free gift, extra in every way. It was the Leap Year, that gift of a 29th of February that comes every four years. I was born in 1964, a leap year, and Joey Borter … Continue reading
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Ash Wednesday Planting
I’ve held on through this incredibly mild February and resisted the urge to plant any seeds until today, February 22. The guy at Woods Garden and Nursery said it was ok. He sold me some seeds and a whole bunch of … Continue reading
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