just playing catch up on this very cold day. we are venturing out later for MLK candlelight march at school. i loved this song and their show as a kid.
this was such a great read.
appealing to the graphic designer and cook.
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Shepard Fairey sticker spotted at our farmers market. i wonder who has the key to that lock?
creative speaker storage…
a little blast from the past found in my files. you should make sure to write your daytime phone and country on your diskette. Yes, that is what they were called.
i like to learn about weeds so when i saw this revised addition at the library, i scooped it up. i love all the illustrations by Robert Inwood. i just had to share his little skull icons for each poisonous plant. i think they are just lovely. i learned that Robert Inwood also illustrated underground comics, graphic novels, rock concert posters (including Jerry Garcia), and books on carpentry and homesteading.
this one is my fav with the 3/4 view and shading.
this one is my second fav.
this may be my all-time fav.
i heard about this book on a garden podcast. forgive me for not remembering, but it sounded like something i would really dig, so i ordered it at our library from the MSU library! even though Kentucky is in zones 6 and 7 (SE Michigan is in zone 5) there was still great advice from fellow gardeners and farmers.
i really loved reading this story of a family dedicated to rehabilitating the land and water. now if everyone could be as dedicated to the earth as they are we may turn this ship around.
rhubarb was still good after the last frost we had. i did not have enough room in the freezer to put up any more. i still had a few bags from the spring harvest. i guess i should have made jam to give away for the holidays. instead i made a crisp with blueberries, peaches (canned), and cherries (canned). we are rebuilding the 14 year old raised beds for spring so the garden now looks like a muddy heap of wood and soil. did you know that rhubarb leaves are great for fighting weeds? You just put them down on top of the weeds and they break down and form a natural mulch. There are other ideas you can find for a natural pesticide but i have not tried that. it involves boiling the leaves. this inherited perennial has brought joy to us, our friends, and neighbors.
i noticed this pretty, little flower more this fall, so i thought i would research it. it comes up on the edge of the woods and pops up in some of the beds especially the blackberry bramble. It’s called panicled aster or symphyotrichum lanceolateum. according to U of M Herbarium: “it is one of the commonest asters, especially in moist open ground including shores, river banks, edges of forests and swamps, meadows, ditches and swales, interdunal flats; wet prairies, marshes, fens; fields, along old railroads, roadsides.”
we had our second frost so i thought i would pick the last of everything. carrots, collards, and chard. i saved some of the carrot tops for soup stock. i don’t know what i am going to do with all the onions! oh, i had one purple carrot! you can see it a wee bit in the photos.
