Mostly Plants

Travelings, Cookings, and Musings from an Almost-Public-Defender

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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

The garden is coming along quite nicely now.  I visited today, did some digging, and mulched around the brussels sprouts.  Three cubic feet of mulch didn’t go nearly as far as I thought they would, and I gestimate it would take about ten bags to mulch the whole garden.  Probably cheaper to plant chives, clover, [...]

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I can has garden!

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday I took possession of a Cornell garden plot out at Plantations, just south of the Dyce bee labs.  I got some Brussels Sprout seedlings from Home Depot and put them straight in the ground, and staked out my plot with dead limbs from the forest that other gardeners have used in the past (I [...]

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Pollan’s Letter to Whole Foods

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Michael Pollan has posted a letter to whole foods at his blog, responding to the whole foods CEO’s criticism of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I’ll give you the punch line here, but you really ought to read the whole letter–explaining Pollan’s conclusion:
After spending time with you and reading your letter, I’ve wondered if perhaps I did, [...]

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