21 Wednesday Nov 2012
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crop swapping, garden, gardening, photography, RIPE Altadena, sustainable food, Wordless Wednesday
Posted by Growing Up in the Garden | Filed under Altadena, Garden, Wordless Wednesday
06 Saturday Oct 2012
Posted in Altadena, Food Politics, Garden, Label GMOs
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Altadena Farmers' Market, food politics, gardening, GMOs, Monsanto, Proposition 37, RIPE Altadena, sustainable agriculture, sustainable living
We don’t watch much live television in our house, so it wasn’t until last night (during the presidential debate or some time after) that I saw my first No on 37 television ad. I only half listened, but was mortified by the twisting of information and the purposeful absence of the whole picture. I hate campaigns. Even the Yes on 37 campaign can be annoying at times. But, seeing that ad reminded me just how powerful large corporations are and how far they will go to prop up our broken food system (and their bottom line).
I got my very first yard sign on Monday, and finally got it in the ground a few days ago. It was this act, poking the steel rods into the soil, that reminded me what is growing, what will continue to grow, whether or not Proposition 37 passes. Continue reading »
11 Saturday Aug 2012
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crop swapping, food system, garden, gardening, RIPE Altadena, sustainable living, urban gardening
As we were getting ready to leave for our two-week trip to Virginia, I had to make sure the garden was ready to be taken care of by someone other than myself. I mulched. I sprayed the watered down milk on the squash leaves to slow down the powdery mildew. I heavily harvested the basil. I printed out detailed instructions. I gave away what we couldn’t eat. I packed six ripe tomatoes and two cucumbers into our carry on luggage. Who could part with the summer’s first ripe tomatoes?
As I spent these final moments in the garden, I gazed at the nearly ripe cantaloupes, the first of the eggplants elongating, the reddening bell peppers, and the tomato plants heavy with fruit just beginning to turn red, and I thought, we have to remember to plan our trip earlier in the summer next year. It is hard to leave in the hands of another, the garden you have carefully tended to, especially at the moment it starts to produce so much produce you have the delightful problem of figuring out what to do with all of it.
And so, we left and came back two weeks later….
