During the Dwell on Design conference, I was fortunate to be asked to participate on a panel with two other gals about community and school gardens. One of the ladies, Hynden Walch, was the founder of the Hillside Produce Cooperative, which is a monthly free food exchange that helps distribute the surplus in a given community. She pointed me in the direction of Naomi Curland, who started the Westside version of this ...
Last week I was interviewed by Bruce Boyers of Organic Connections Magazine. He wanted to know how Gardenerd got started and why we're doing all this food-growing stuff. Check out the article here:
The Gardenerd: Grow Your Own Organic
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Find out great ways to use and preserve your lemons this summer.
This past Saturday, August 7, was our very first Summer Potluck and Seed Exchange.
A question came in this week:
"Balcony gardening question - Is anyone growing wild edibles in pots - such as purslane,dandelions,lambs quarters,wood sorrel,etc.?"
This is the first time anyone has asked me how to cultivate weeds deliberately, but it's not the first time the idea of eating weeds has come up in conversation. While most people simply forage for them, there are many benefits to the plants you have listed here, and with caution, you can cultivate them ...
Garden harvests are too good to keep to yourself. Use these summer gathering ideas to share the abundance this season.
In our last episode, our protagonist was struggling to understand where excessive zinc levels came from in her garden soil. The story continues.
Preserving, or putting up goes hand in hand with gardening. Learn how to store your tomato harvest for a rainy day.
Thanks to our fabulous Nicole and her endeavors in PR, our upcoming Summer Harvest Potluck and Seed Exchange got a mention on the LA Times blog this morning. Check it out and come join us for fun and food in the summer sun!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2010/07/gardenerd-garden-nerd-seed-exchange.html
For more details, visit the Gardenerd Website.
Happy Gardening!
I grew 23 tomato plants this year for two reasons: 1) to make up for last year's blight and subsequent crappy harvest, and 2) to have enough to can some tomatoes. Well, blight struck again this year, despite the precautions, but there are still plenty of tomatoes to go around. Yesterday I picked about a pound of Roma tomatoes - not really enough for big batch canning, but enough to satisfy the urge to preserve. Canning equipment was pulled out…