Archive for the 'food security' Category
Why Urban Gardening: An Answer for Atrios
Atrios asks:
Please Get A Soil Lead Reading First
I guess we can make this contrarian Saturday. One thing I really don’t understand – help me! – is the regular stream of people promoting urban agriculture. I don’t understand the point. I’ve got nothing against community gardens and the like, I understand that even urban hellhole residents [...]
Stop HR 759
Just say no to HR 759. call Congress and tell your rep to vote NO.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
he way I see it, plain old normal food has sustained humanity for millions of years, and I’m just not into injecting jellyfish genes or what-have-you into my tomatoes for a redder, shionier, [...]
Upcoming Shows…
The Dill Pickles, who you love, will be at the Narberth Music Festival on May 17. Having spent quite a bit of time in Narberth recently, I can tell you it’s a really sweet little town, and represents a quick and easy escape from sweltering in the city. Also, the show is for a [...]
Read More..>>Busy Day, Light Blogging
And perhaps no blogging. I kinda need to refresh my brain.
In other news, by day’s end my fourth raised bed will finally be done. Also, on Sunday, I dug and amended the back bed and planted a couple of arugulas. In the process, I nearly killed a sunflower seedling (last year’s flowers dropped a [...]
GMOs, Indian Suicides, and Bob Casey
I’ve been light on the blogging this weekend, spending most of my time in the garden, amending soil with compost, manure, and peat moss. We do everything the old-fashioned way: no chemical fertilizers, just plain old dirt and water.
Christina gets all her seeds from Seed Savers Exchange, which I highly recommend. We’re not [...]
For playmissyforme@…
Compost is available at the Fairmount Park Recycling Center weekdays and Saturdays.
The hours kind of suck:
Monday-Friday 7:30AM-3PM
Saturday Hours:
April 4 – November 28
8AM-Noon
Ignore the language about rates; as the first sentence says “City residents are permitted to obtain compost, mulch, wood chips and manure for residential use at no cost. ” Also, this isn’t the “biosolids” [...]
Speaking of Taking a Dump…
HR 875 and HR 759 are major pieces of shit.
Read More..>>Spring has Sprung
… and with it my back has begun to ache. yesterday we began, a bit belatedly, to start working and amending the soil in the raised beds. Yesterday, I spaded in a thick layer of peat, dehydrated manure (man, did THAT stink), and perlite. Tomorrow and Wednesday, I get up super-early to [...]
Read More..>>While Millions Starve, Philadelphia Wallows in Gluttony
This normally isn’t the kind of thing I pay attention to but given the global calamity, the already disgusting Wing Bowl is even more nauseating than usual.
Media coverage has grown to the point where every one of the major Philadelphia television stations has covered the event. The ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates all aired live [...]
