Why did we pick all these tomatoes when they are so green and so small? Turn them over for an unpleasant surprise: What we have here is blossom end rot. What a disappointment! After some research, Read More …
Month: August 2011
Book Review: The Earth Moved
Earthworms are an especially fascinating topic for every child. Picking them up out of the yard to hold them, watch them (and hopefully place them back on the ground with their life still in tact), is a popular activity around Read More …
Book Review: Omnivore's Dilemma
If you need a good starting point in your quest to understand our food system and how it relates to everything else in our history and culture, this would be a good read for you. My rating: 5 of Read More …
Farmland as a Commodity
Farmland being treated like a stock-market bid, on which savvy businessmen hope to make as much money as possible. I am often inspired by my local paper, but this article has been haunting me ever since I read Read More …
Feeding People is Easy- A Book Review
Colin Tudge’s Book lays out a plan for ‘fixing’ our current food economy. This is a quick read (maybe a few hours), but it is pretty packed with ideas. In some ways, Colin Tudge seemed to oversimplify some political Read More …