Grow the Change
21 September 2009

Fruits: a celebration

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The peak harvests from our tomato crop are inevitably post-frost, but the tomatoes do ripen in a hurry after the plants begin to die back th...
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16 September 2009

The big and the little

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It's the big one... We've got whopping big potatoes this year, must be all the rain. And even this pound-and-a-halfer had barely a s...
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14 September 2009

The flavor of frost

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This is a gorgeous time of year, the temperatures have cooled off, and the mosquitoes, blackflies, biting midges, deerflies, and horseflies ...
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08 September 2009

Harvesting grains

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September heralds a harvest of a different nature, with a quickened pace to match the flurry of spring planting. These two peaks of activity...
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31 August 2009

August frost!

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An August frost snuck up on us this year. Not too surprising, we did have a frost warning on July 8th this summer, for goodness sake! With a...
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26 August 2009

Tomato (or Otherwise) Chutney

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I found a most delicious tomato chutney recipe, of East Indian inspiration, in an April 1981 Organic Gardening magazine. I modified it sligh...
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24 August 2009

Fungal diseases in the garden

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With the incredible rainfall we've had here in the east, there's been ample opportunity for fungal diseases in the garden. The late ...
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20 August 2009

Too much beauty

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There's just too much beauty in the garden, I simply must share... Syriphid Fly eating the nectar of a Calendula Flower. Northern Leopa...
18 August 2009

Growing small grains and seeds

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We are growing some test plots of small grains and seeds in the garden this year. Mostly, these plots have taught me about the growing condi...
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We believe that growing our own food is the most radical and effective way to promote social justice, equality and sustainability. Everyone, to some extent, can grow their own food. It makes even more sense for communities to grow their own food, sharing responsibilities and costs. It requires a restructuring of values, the kinds of values that are necessary for a consumer culture to wake up to the exploitation and poverty we perpetuate throughout the world. Our socially and environmentally exploitive food-culture perpetuates the very resource wars and poverty that concern so many of us. Growing food brings our environment sharply into focus; we learn how much we rely on healthy food, healthy soil and an healthy ecosystem. On our homestead, and in this blog, we practice and advocate human-scaled food systems, with an intimate hands on approach, as a way for everyone on this earth to be nutritiously and sustainably fed, from the first world to the third world. Our diverse, closed-loop homestead is to us, a relevant form of protest, as well as a constructive way to build a sustainable future. We are all in this together. Not one of us lives on this earth alone.
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