Dino Watch
This just in from ThinkProgress: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/13/3436923/germany-energy-records/ Yes, Germany, with it’s average 30 days of sunshine a year, just hit 74.9% of it’s energy...
View ArticleA Good Week in Suburbutopia
It’s been an embarrassingly ridiculously long time since I posted last. Evidently, living in a rented room writing about your husband’s gardening adventures is not quite the same as actually living...
View ArticleUnexpectedly Happy Ending
Ralph discovered these things in our compost heap. Yikes! There were millions of them, it seemed, busily munching on a head of cabbage that had split and gone bad. We’d dealt with an earwig...
View ArticleSuburban Garden Planning 101
It’s raining compost. Fall really is the time to start your garden. It’s just raining compost as the leaves fall from the trees. The days are cool and much more pleasant to work in than the muggy days...
View ArticleSuburban Garden Planning 102
After. This article is about the before part. So there you are with your hot cup of tea (or coffee, hot chocolate, cold beer, whatever) and the newly arrived seed catalogs, or your computer browser is...
View ArticleSuburban Garden Planning 103
Collards and broccoli, just set out. So, remember how I said not to order anything yet? Hope you were paying attention, because this time we’re going to talk about an important piece of the gardening...
View ArticleSummer Soup
The woodstove heats the house on this chilly late fall day.. I rummaged in the freezer and found yellow squash, green beans, Roma tomatoes, a pint of blanching water from some vegetable or other. I...
View ArticleSnow Day Soup
It’s snowing, so it’s Soup Day. Here’s what I’m making. How about you? Brazilian Black Bean Soup (Feijoada) 1 lb black beans, washed and picked over 2 qts water 8 cloves garlic 2 bay leaves 1 orange,...
View ArticleIn Case You Didn’t Think the Republican Party is Owned by the Fossil Fuel...
http://grist.org/politics/why-are-republican-leaders-so-strongly-opposed-to-a-climate-deal/ These are death throes.
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