Trading on craigslist turns this: Into this: 8 pounds of tomatoes! I traded Lazy Day Farm (on Seward Road, 1.5 miles east of I-35 near Guthrie) the massive amount of pots I’ve accumulated for eight pounds of tomatoes. I had no idea she was going to give me so many! I’m going to make gazpacho [...]
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Craigslist Magic
Posted in Community, Local, Tomatoes on July 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Gardening in the Concrete Jungle
Posted in Community, Garden, Travel on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While I was attending a conference in San Francisco I happened across this oasis one night on my way back to the hotel from a restaurant. My feet were killing me and I was sleep-deprived, so I told myself I would come back and explore. I’m so glad I did. I was full of superlatives [...]
Icebox Insight
Posted in Community, Experimenting, Media on June 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
23-year-old bachelor | fort worth, tx | 1-person household | recently discovered that sauteed spinach can be good stay at home mom | del valle, tx | 3-person household | new obsession: iced coffee empty-nesters | ft worth, tx | 2-person household | memorial day & birthday weekend magazine editor | edmond, ok | 2-person [...]
Are You What You Eat?
Posted in Community, Media, Random on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this photo series. Cool, huh? Here is a similar, though more sobering, collection. I’d love to post a similar series of photos here. Let us peek into your life by emailing a photo of your open fridge. This is a chance to show off the lovely contents of your fridge or to “come out” about your take-out [...]
Baking Bread
Posted in Back to Basics, Bread, Co-op, Community on March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Perhaps this war will make it simpler for us to go back to some of the old ways we knew before we came over to this land and made the Big Money. Perhaps, even, we will remember how to make good bread again. It does not cost much. It is pleasant: one of those almost [...]
“We’re all farmers now”
Posted in Agriculture, Community, In the News, Media on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Daily Telegraph has a lovely article on local food, the evolution of a CSA (community supported agriculture) group, and the abstract factors involved with farming, food security, etc. It’s well written and a joy to read (probably has a little something to do with that British dialect). And visit the Swillington CSA blog for [...]
