animal, vegetable, miracle
this is a good, informative read. and barbara kingsolver is funny! wouldn't we all love the time to be this intentional...it's like having a love affair with asparagus. who knew? before i dub myself a dismal failure, however, for eating too many packaged foods during the teaching year or for not testing my soil (gasp) or for being a poor composter (double gasp)...i thought about changes that i could reasonably make. breathing a sigh of relief that i didn't have to do it all on my own, my action steps thus far involve looking up local creameries and places to get farm fresh eggs. here's a test for you: how many fruit and vegetable varieties can you name in seasonal order?
Let's see, currently have onions, carrots, kale, and cabbage growing. The prize for the veggie that survives all this frost? Gets to be eaten! Then it's on to the spring greens and potatoes which are sleeping quietly in the ground right now. We'll try to hold back the saliva as we wait for the strawberries in june and the raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and cherries in rapid succession. And of course, by then, beans, tomatoes, eggplant, summer squash: basically everything needed for the perfect ratatouille will be ready. Finally pumpkins, corn, apples, squash to finish up the fall and, gasp, is it Christmas time already?! Somebody bring me the figs for the pudding! :D
ReplyDeletekudos, garden girl! was it reading the book on dirt, because you get a prize!
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