If you’ve arrived at this site from People magazine, you probably have an interest in starting a food garden or learning more about how to grow your own food. You may also be wondering what’s behind the name “Slow Cook.”
I guess you could say I am part of a growing movement in this country [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Gardening Blogs'
Welcome, People Readers
April 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: food news·Gardening Blogs·press
Watch Slow Cook on Television
March 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
This must be the week when the news media wake up to spring and want to interview The Slow Cook in his garden.
We’ve been interviewed about chickens by WAMU radio, appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi show to talk about food gardening and yesterday we entertained a film crew from FOX News to talk about [...]
Tags: food news·Gardening Blogs
Don’t Wait for a Community Garden Plot!
March 27th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
We don’t publish many guest posts here at The Slow Cook (this may be the first). But this story was too good to pass by. Nat West, of Portland, Oregon, got tired of waiting for a community garden plot. So he went to Google’s satellite map, located a vacant lot near his home and turned [...]
Hear Slow Cook on the Radio
March 24th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized
The Slow Cook is scheduled to talk about urban food gardening on the Kojo Nnamdi show at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 25 (tomorrow).
Kojo, a popular host on WAMU radio here in the District of Columbia,is located at 88.5 FM locally. You can also listen to him live on the internet here. The program is usually [...]
Family Gardening
March 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
I spent most of my Sunday taking advantage of spring-like weather to work in the garden–preparing beds, mulching and planting seeds. Apparently I gave the impression that this was so much fun that daughter, home from a long bike ride with Mom, came running over to join me. “Where I can I plant my [...]
Tags: children·edible flowers·Gardening Blogs·planting·spring
Food Lessons for Hard Times
February 25th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized
To hear the economists tell it, times may be getting even worse before they get better. Some people have already been forced to tighten their belts. For others, it’s time to think about tightening belts even further. Still, there’s a silver lining to these austere developments: Less consumption by us humans is better for [...]
Tags: bulk foods·community gardens·Gardening Blogs·recession·seafood·vegetables·whole grains
A Great Big Food Garden Tax Break & Stimulus Package
February 8th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
Warning: The following may contain dangerously subversive thoughts. Young children should probably leave the room….
Although I believe in food gardening, I am also convinced that we will only get so far trying to persuade Americans that there is a healthier way to eat, and that growing your own is a big part of the [...]
Tags: Gardening Blogs
My New Tunnel
November 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
I probably neglected to mention that when I came home from a week’s vacation in August I found that something had eaten all the seedlings I had started for the fall. Romaine lettuces, cabbages, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, collards. Everything chewed down to the nub. I assume it was birds. I had left the seed [...]
Tags: Gardening Blogs·greens·winter
Precision Weeding
June 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Sometimes weeding the vegetable garden can be like pulling teeth–literally.
Weeds are a fact of life for the organic gardener. No one’s found a way yet to get rid of them entirely. Sometimes we are a bit careless in the way we make our compost and end up spreading grass seeds around the garden beds. [...]
Tags: Gardening Blogs·weeds
Hot on Top
June 13th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
My wife hates to see men with their shirts off.
“Who wants to look at your big, fat, hairy belly?” she grouses.
But when it gets hot, men think nothing of stripping down to their shorts. And not just gardeners. On the running trails all over town, men are huffing and puffing and sweating bare-chested for [...]
Tags: Gardening Blogs·heat
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
