Results of the recent weather

Our lettuce and tomatoes took a bit of a battering with the recent hail, rain and wind. However, it is early in the growing season yet and we are sure they will recover. The garden has been very wet - too wet to work in. As such, the weeds have flourished. This Thursday, we will be having a weeding social. Come on out after work and help us pull weeds.

The Pleasure of Eating

This was borrowed from the Kitchen Gardeners International newsletter.

One of the tastiest morsels of edible advice I've ever read which moves us towards greater food literacy did not require 400 pages or even 4 words. It came from Wendell Berry's classic 1990 essay The Pleasure of Eating and can be summed up in just 2 words: eat responsibly.  He goes on to list 7 specific things we can do to achieve this:

1. Participate in food production to the extent that you can. 
2. Prepare your own food. 
3. Learn the origins of the food you buy, and buy the food that is produced closest to your home. 
4. Whenever possible, deal directly with a local farmer, gardener, or orchardist. 
5. Learn, in self-defense, as much as you can of the economy and technology of industrial food production. 
6. Learn what is involved in the best farming and gardening.
7. Learn as much as you can, by direct observation and experience if possible, of the life histories of the food species.

Tomatoes and electric fence!

This week we planted out tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, marigolds and Evans' Cherry trees. We also put up the electric fence. Remember to turn it off or step well over before you work in the garden! We also had some new volunteers out to help - thank you!