Managing a garden for food tests my ability to walk and chew gum and the same time. I can’t decide whether this is more like playing at air traffic controller or valet parking attendant. It’s just not as simple as tossing a few seeds in the ground and waiting for dinner to appear. Vegetables mature […]
I’ve been commiserating with Kevin over at Seriously Good about not having enough hours in the day for cooking and writing and working. Well here’s a news flash: It’s Spring, and food needs to be planted. What you’re looking at here is a view north on our corner lot in the District of Columbia. I […]
Where does food come from? It comes from the ground, of course. And prior to that, it arrives on earth in the form of sunshine. Thanks to photosynthesis, we have food to eat, because plants have the unique ability to turn sunshine into carbohydrates, providing calories for us and for other animals (some of which […]
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