Abundance

Cruciferous love
Bloog, how I've missed you... things are still a bit unsettled around here, as life slowly moves from boxes into this new space. So far so good. Figuring out the new routine, where to buy food, where to get a good cappuccino.. (As discussed with Kathy,

Moving
I have moved house. Whew. Objects are such a drag.I'm too tired to be excited yet, but I'm sure excitement to try out all the techniques I've read about on my very own garden will grow in

Rose hips
A bit of warm weather led to a trip to the wild park and two pounds of rose hips picked in 15 minutes. There were thousands of them. So now I have a local source of Vit C over the winter. The internet tells me (so it must be true..) that compared to oranges, hips have 20-40% more vitamin C, 24% more iron, and 28% more calcium. Th

Rogue Squash
We made a delightful discovery while harvesting the last of the garden -- a squash gone rogue! We had been disappointed with the apparent lack of squash, despite miles and miles of vines (which I'm sure we should have been pinching back.. ), but as we were bringing in the last tomatoes and root vegetables saw this huge specimen

We got the beet
I'm not sure how to feel about our week of plus thirty temperatures... it is nice in some ways, but seems to portend of future water shortages and wacky growing seasons. Learning to simply accept what happens is something I need to work on. Chris Vester is a great example of that. The fundraiser was fantastic, kudos to