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The Seattle City Council passed an absolutely lovely resolution about local food incentives and planning policies to encourage urban gardening. Full text is here. Waves at Joe working in the city archives! The deal with a resolution is that it doesn’t actually *do* anything, but laying out that these are the values of my [...] Update to say that I have created a new page, About Us & FAQ. If you have paid attention you can sort of do the math to figure out what we planted this weekend. However, since you almost surely have not, I will post later this week with notes on what we did. Late last summer, we bought half a flat each of blackberries and strawberries at the farmers’ market, and zipped them up with our handy FoodSaver and froze them. I’m on a clean-out-the-freezer kick lately, combined with a don’t-waste-food-from-the-CSA project, and it has led me to get creative with fruit. The delivery box includes pears, [...] 1. A secondhand cookstove 2. An extra large garden cart 3. A practice set of Uillean pipes (Pronounce “Illin’”) 4. An iPhone. [...] It was 70° here on Saturday, which is approximately late June weather, rarely in mid-April. It was also the first day of the Bainbridge Island Farmers’ Market, so we rode our bikes into town in the morning and did some shopping. I had my bike all tricked out with my removable wicker basket on [...] So, there are benefits to having a wife with a degree in linguistics. It turns out that, as I’ve known for a while, the name ‘garth’ is derived from an Old English word for garden and the name ‘lauren’ means victory. That’s right, when we got married, our names combined to form victory garden. [...] Still no love for the bees in the Northwest. Colony Collapse Disorder is still affecting beekeepers. This is problematic in the extreme because, you know, no bees, no flowers. On the upside, bees managed in a non-industrial manner tend to be less affected by CCD. I’m not entirely convinced as the beekeepers on our [...] |
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