Mostly Plants

Travelings, Cookings, and Musings from a Migratory Public Defender

Mostly Plants header image 5

Entries Tagged as 'locavoracious'

Planters! From repurposed plastic bottles

May 9th, 2009 No Comments

With a shout out to Dancinglights, and Inside Urban Green for the idea, I have been hard at work making planters out of repurposed soda and gatorade bottles, and takeout containers.
I’ve been asked for pictures, so here they are, using a gatorade bottle as an example:

Tags:   · · ·

New Fermentings

January 4th, 2009 No Comments

Kombucha
The cranberry kombucha is all gone.  It was lovely, but it tasted so unlike tea that I tended to foget there was caffeine in it.  I think next time I will not use black tea for this.
Meanwhile, I have a new 3-quart batch of rose hips kombucha that’s looking close to ready!
Below the cut, Weinkraut [...]

Tags:   · · · · · · · · · · ·

Garden: Not a Total Loss

September 29th, 2008 No Comments

Some of you, my dear readers, may have wondered what ever happened to my garden.  The short answer is I stopped paying it much attention after the first week of July, when I started caring about the bar.
I had assumed it was a total loss.  When I moved to Massachusetts I showed the plot to [...]

Tags:   · ·

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, [...]

Tags:   · ·

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 [...]

Tags:   · ·

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, [...]

Tags:   · ·