For the latter part of our Wednesday “weekend” — I spent the morning freelancing for the Windsor Times, and Emmett spent it harvesting — Emmett and I have decided to indulge in a miniature Slow Food event of our own. After a lunch of four ears of fresh-picked corn (wormy ends severed prior to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘squash’
August 17, 2008
the jungle
I’ve dug up a few interesting farming-related articles from around the web: how high food prices can hurt — or at least not help — third world farmers, what Wal-Mart, cancer, and organic produce have to do with local farming in my hometown of San Diego, and when agricultural conservation gets contentious in New [...]
August 1, 2008
the squash mystery
A mystery is casting a pall over the farm. (OK, fine, that’s not a pall, that’s my shadow. I didn’t want to post more depressing pictures of dead squash, can you blame me?)
Anyway, our squash continue to die: the ones that were wilting are now flat-lined into the soil. A post-mortem [...]
July 24, 2008
the fate of the squash
The squash are our hope for the future: we have hundreds and hundreds of them planted. Delicata, acorn, kuri, butternut, various varieties of pumpkins, not to mention our zucchini, yellow crooknecks, canteloupes and melons. We went big on the winter squash, thinking it a particularly useful crop: since they store so [...]
July 21, 2008
why farm?
I was talking to my mom on the phone today, describing The Flood. “It doesn’t sound like you’re enjoying farming,” she said.
“Oh, no,” I said. “I’m just describing the event. I don’t like waking up at 5 a.m. to a giant flood, is all.”
But then I thought about it. And on some [...]
