Ken, Author at FutureFarming.Org

Showing the Love for our Puny Potatoes

Check it out! We harvested our potatoes! Craig saw the above picture before he saw the actual potatoes. When he saw them in person, he started laughing. "Wow, those are…

Use Your Blender for (Almost) Instant Compost

Here's an interesting way to 'compost' your extra kitchen scraps! Found this over at Attainable Sustainable (a really cool site, check it out!). What if you don’t have a lot…

Yellow Does Not Become You

I'm talking to you, cucumbers. Pretty, but.... Yellow may look wonderful on our sunflowers and our pear tomatoes, and even on our yellow peppers. We always wanted to…

Green Groups may be more damaging than Climate Change Deniers

The "No Logo" author explains how environmentalists may be more damaging to their cause than climate change deniers BY JASON MARK Original Article posted HERE Canadian author Naomi Klein is so…

Lingering Promises

Summer is winding down and many of our plants are closing up shop. Frost will be right around the corner. We miss our green beans; they stopped producing a…

Sugar Pickles

Otherwise known as Cucumber Salad! If you have a big cucumber glut like we do, this is a really tasty recipe to use some up. The flavor…

How Big a Backyard Do You Need to Live Off The Land?

Here's an interesting visual, stretching the imagination about just how much each person could produce from their own land. The original link here includes interesting comments, both incredulous and inspired,…

Awesome Recipe for the Last Green Beans

There's a big kid in the garden! Even my almost 15-year-old gets involved with the garden, and though he finds it a bit uncool to get excited about…

I Dare You Not To Smile

When you come face-to-face with a sunflower! You've got to click The Strange History of the Sunflower for some absolutely stunning pictures of sunflowers. They are just so incredibly photogenic! Below…

Critter On The Loose

I'm not sure who the culprit is, but when Simon and I went out tonight to pick tomatoes, I found this. There were five tomatoes like this, all…