Mary Beth: Winter is coming, I think, and even though the weather continues to be unusually warm for this time of year, I’ve been getting the bees ready.
So, what about the bees? Every time I tell someone that Ray and I are moving back to Colorado (Ch, Ch, Changes), I hear this question. I’ll say, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Organic’
A Rant About a Rant
Posted in Agriculture & Farming, Bees, tagged Bee Habitat, Beekeeping, Bees, CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder, Garden Rant, Honeybees, Organic, Pollinators, Sustainability, Sustainable Practices on November 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Barbara: I got a call this morning from Mary Beth directing me to Garden Rant blog. Today’s guest rant, “Who cares about honeybees, anyway?” by Xris, the Flatbush Gardener had gotten her all worked up, and rightly so. As I read it, I could feel my blood pressure rising. This rant, by someone who is [...]
Benefits of Organic Gardening
Posted in Block Island, California, Critters, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Bee Habitat, Birds, Block Island, Bumble Bee, California, Crab Spider, Flowers, Frogs, Garden, Gardening, Honey Bee, Honeybee, Lizard, Organic, Organic Gardening, Peeper Frog, Plants, Towhee, Vegetable Garden on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Mary Beth & Barbara: Here’s another post where we’re going to let the pictures tell the story. All we really want to say is that the rewards for not using chemical pesticides are many. Some are obvious, like just knowing that you’re not adding to the chemical load in the environment. Others are more subtle [...]
A Morning Full of Surprises
Posted in Agriculture & Farming, California, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged California, Farm, Flowers, Food and Farm Lab, Garden, Gardening, Great Park, Irvine, Master Gardeners, Orange County, Organic, Raised Bed Gardening, Row Crops, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Barbara: I was looking forward to this past Saturday morning ever since I read that the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners would be presenting a fall vegetable workshop at the Farm and Food Lab in the Great Park. Irvine is something of a wasteland when it comes to these sorts of things, so [...]
Taking the Cure
Posted in Block Island, Cooking, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Basil, Beets, Block Island, Carrots, Garden, Herbs, Kale, Leeks, Organic, Recipe, Roma Tomato, Soup, Squash, Swiss Chard, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Mary Beth: Ray and I were under the weather on Labor Day weekend, so I decided to make a nutritious soup using all the wonderful vegetables in my garden. As I was picking the ingredients for the soup, I was thinking about the article I read on the Garden Rant blog where the author mentions [...]
WTF’s Eating My Tomato Plants?
Posted in Block Island, Critters, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Dogs, Garden, Garden Pests, Gardening, Organic, Plants, Tomato Hornworm, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Mary Beth: Oh how wonderful it is to be standing in the garden looking at those beautiful tomatoes, feeling proud of my babies and thinking of all the delicious meals I’m going to make. Mmm.
Wait! Something catches my eye. WTF?! Something is chewing big chunks of my plants! My tomatoes!
A shiver runs down my spine [...]
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