Yay New Garlic (Digital Diptych)
State of the Garden
Expecting a hard frost (the first one) by the end of the week. Now to figure out how to address this many green cherry and roma tomatoes.
State of the Garden (Still No Hard Frost)
State of the Garden (with Uma Basking in the Sun)
I’m sure by now, some of you have noticed that Uma, the goddess who is all of the goddesses (as is Kali but in a different way), is, at least when transliterated, an acronym for Aum.
State of the Garden
State of the Garden (and Making Space)
If there is a shortage of space in one direction, before giving up, try another direction. In a tiny garden, using vertical space opens lots more opportunities. In our own bodies (and minds), taking advantage of different ways of getting to a particular place can make embodiment that much fuller.
hops vine, cherry tomatoes and butternut squash
From the Garden Before Starting My Work Day
And then pasta with pesto and cherry tomatoes for lunch.
State of the Garden
State of the Garden (Happy May Day)
Thanks to the farmers who come in to town, I know the people who gather the eggs and milk the goats to make cheese. Thanks to my friend Jess, who left a tub of sourdough starter on my porch Friday morning, and my inspiration to make dough to rise overnight between dinner with neighbors and going to bed, I have homemade sourdough bread. With such a fairly wet and very active chef, it was pretty successful to do a sort of hybrid of the New York Times’ no knead bread, which I kneaded, but not for 10-15 minutes, and Martha Rose Shulman’s no-yeast sourdough country bread (in Great Breads).
State of the Garden (El Nino December)
Arugula, chard, kale, garlic chives, celery, various perennial herbs