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Food Gardens for Condos?

December 18th, 2011 · 4 Comments · garden, Sustainability

When I wrote recently about my old garden being torn up to make way for condos, my friend Pattie Baker, author of the Foodshed Planet blog, was so distraught she wrote the developer to plead the case that he ought to offer garden plots to the new condo owners. In fact, I had suggested the […]

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Garden Gone

December 5th, 2011 · 11 Comments · garden, Sustainability

We sold our big house on the corner last August and the developers wasted no time. The next morning a crew was waiting at the front door to start tearing the place apart. Plans call for turning our former homer–a big brick Victorian built in 1900–into six condominiums. We figure that’s a good use for […]

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A Zestier Smothered Okra

July 18th, 2011 · 10 Comments · garden, Recipes

I planted our garden late this year because we were planning to sell our house and I wasn’t sure we’d have any garden at all. But look at our okra. Barely three feet high, the plant are already making pods like crazy. I had to take a moment from tiling bathrooms to harvest some quick, […]

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