Seed Order for 2012 and Tamarind Seed Give-Away

Seed collection before order Yesterday Amie and I spent hours looking through the seed catalogs and the seeds I have left over. In the end I opted to go just with Fedco. In my defense, I ordered very few seeds last year! 249 – Maxibel Bush Haricots Verts OG ( C=8oz) 298 – Windsor Fava Bean …

Hopeful Naivety

I liked Bill McKibben’s essay, “Armed with Naivety”,  for TomDispatch a couple of weeks ago. In it he proclaimed his New Year’s resolution: My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve — dangerously naïve. I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you …

Climate Change and the Sugar Maples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzI1SbSpBZc&feature=youtu.be I like this beautiful video, produced by Climate Desk, because it brings climate change home to us. Martha Carlson: “Anyone can see a picture of the polar bear but what does it look like in *my* backyard with *my* animals or *my* plants?” Bringing it home, where it has been all this time, of course, …