A lettuce! Off the heat mat: lettuce, mache, spinach, kale, chard, etc. On the heat mat: onions, celery, parsley, etc.
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Hive Opening for the BEElieve Folks
The Transition Wayland BEElieve group met yesterday in my apiary, aka the “bee yard”, that is, in the close vicinity of my one hive (soon to be three!), for the first hive opening of the year. This is a cross post with the one I posted on the Transition Wayland blog, called “Wayland Voices“. ~ …
Faith in a Seed (Again)
I did it: I fired up up the seedling bank, lights, heat mat, timer, fan, mouse traps, and all! And everything still works. I discovered this nifty When To Start What “calculator” from Johnny’s Seeds. I’m behind, of course: should have started three weeks ago. It doesn’t matter for lettuce and kale and the like, because …
BEElieve Beekeepers Group and Feeding the Bees
One of my most favorite projects with Transition Wayland is the BEElieve group. We sent out calls for beekeepers and bee enthusiasts in Wayland at the beginning of the year on our website and in the local media. Within two months, we had twenty people on the email list. We held our first meeting last …
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Riot for February 2012 – Month 40
Forty months of Riot! I love it, it puts real meat on the numbers. This is the Riot for the month of February 2012 for the three of us. My summary of our first three years is here. Edson fixed the calculator: all go tither to crunch those numbers! Gasoline.  Calculated per person. Our investigation of transport …
Cushions
The farmer in his field A while ago we finally took the step and enrolled in a year-long CSA, starting this Spring, at Siena Farms. We visited the farm in Fall and fell in love with the fields and the farmers. I loved especially the fact that the owner, Farmer Chris, puts effort and money …
350 Poems – Still Poem 4
Change of plans! This poem will not be our friend’s birthday poem after all. So it is going out to someone else, with the following ink and water color painting by Pinka Das, from Kolkata, India. The inkling Some things just must be said Some things just say themselves If only for a mouth I just need to …
Seeds Arrived and Garden Plans
Most of my seedy order arrived last week. After a lot of dawdling, I finally tidied up the basement so I can start growing. Two years ago, when I was really on top of the garden, I had already started. I am also thinking about getting a garden plot at our Community Gardens. I’ll put something less …
350 Poems – Poem 4
I wrote this poem sitting in the reading room in the  Weston library, where a friend brought me after a brisk walk in the fresh February air. It is to go with an illustration by DH and Amie and will be a birthday present for a dear friend. The inkling Some things just must be …
Thoughts on Activism and Futility
I’m, uhm, a little behind on my magazine subscriptions. I subscribe to only two: YES! magazine (quarterly) and Orion magazine (6/year), and still I can’t keep up. But today I finally got a chance to pick up the Spring 2011 issue of YES! And there I read the column by Colin Beavan, aka, No Impact …