Alright, I’ve been watching Survivors on BBC, and the Walking Dead, and I saw The Road a few weeks ago, so end-of-world scenarios are in my head. The more I see movie and TV shows try to tackle this big…
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What’s Your Post-Apocalyptic Plan?
Posted in Events, Gardening, Home Improvement Tagged with: cataclysm, communes, gardening, Mad Max, plague, post-apocalyptic, superflu, survivors, The Road, urban homesteading, walking dead
Harvesting
Some say we’ve lost touch with the land. We whizz around in cars, staring at glowing rectangles all day, and the natural world is at best, a disturbance, at worst, invisible. Not so! Harvesting your own food is simple, rewarding,…
Foraging and Bad Haircuts
My boy learns quickly. On his regular wagon rides around the yard and garden, in which he thrusts his arm forward like a Roman charioteer, we often stop to pick fresh strawberries. Now when I put him down to roam…
Posted in Gardening, Parenting Tagged with: bangs, children, clippers, garden, haircuts, learn from my mistakes, number two, parenting, strawberries
The End of a Leafy Era
I can’t say I’m sad to see it go. The massive kale and collard green plants in our garden have gone to flower and having grown to umbrella size, survived a plague of grey dusty mites, weathered a blazing hot…
How to Meander
“Babbo, what’s meander mean?” asked CH about a word we’d just read together. “Meander is to wander without a goal, just to go here and there and enjoy yourself,” I replied. Some days are the best because they are unplanned…
