From Lawn to Vegetable
14 Wednesday May 2014
Posted in Altadena, Garden, Wordless Wednesday
Tag Archives: California drought
There Goes the Lawn
01 Saturday Feb 2014
Posted in Food Politics, Garden
I have always secretly, or not so secretly, wanted to do away with the lawn in our backyard. This is not to say I have not enjoyed it over the years. It has served as a good picnic location, a runway for leaping over sprinklers, and as a soft place to land while practicing cartwheels. But, alas, it is so hard to justify in Southern California’s semi-arid climate. Now, with the a severe drought looming, it seems almost absurd.
As Winter Goes Goes the Garden
25 Saturday Jan 2014
In the fall we had this crazy early cold snap and I ran out to make sure the kids had hats to keep their little heads warm. They have had no reason to put them on since then. As most have you have probably heard, it has been anything but cold here in California. Our warm winter, while nice in some ways, may prove to be disastrous come this summer. The garden, in this unrelenting warm, dry winter, is acting as though it were late spring.
Growing Up in the Garden 