I often meet with people in real life, and immediately get an apology for having not read my blog recently. Can you imagine? Have you read all my posts? How ever much I might get nice feedback from people, and have a lot of people regularly reading my blog, I don’t know anyone who admits to reading my whole blog!
I’m sometimes much worse. I can go for months without reading any other blog. I sometimes worry I’ll post something very obvious that everyone else has been talking about for months, and make a fool of myself.
In fact I really appreciate it when people send me emails or leave comments here pointing out things to me I might not otherwise notice, because otherwise I probably wouldn’t notice them!
Anyway, in that spirit, I have a couple of links to blogs I stumbled across lately, but if I’ve missed your blog and you would like me to mention it, please let me know. Don’t take the lack of my noticing your blog personally in any way, it’s only that I just haven’t spent the time to hunt them all out.
Lass Leben is German for ‘Let Live’, and even if you can’t read German all you have to do is look at the blogroll to see this blog takes a similar approach to gardening as I do. I met some Germans, Swiss and Austrians recently in Brussels, and I’m wondering if I met this person… Anyway, if you don’t speak German it’s worth using Google Translate on this blog.
Paul of 16 Wild Acres (or is that Wilde Acres) recently left some comments here. His blog is about a farming project he starting on and writing about. I think it’s going to be interesting to follow his efforts.
Here is a few links.
Hardly anyone is saying much about.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110624/lf_afp/colombiacrimedrugbiotech
Starting to get some attention
http://www.theagitator.com/2011/07/07/does-michelle-obama-know-about-this/
Kraft foods fesses up.
http://blog.friendseat.com/kraft-uses-genetically-engineered-growth-hormone
And of course since the E.U. ban on Herbals..
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/fda%E2%80%99s-new-sneak-attack-on-supplements/
And to note I commented about once E.U. gives in on the Codex agenda. The U.S. will capitulate. I wasn’t wrong or talking crazy either.
I haven’t really gone back and read through your entire blog Pat. Maybe winter season I’ll have more time.
Wow, I’m honoured and stunned! I can’t believe I got mentioned on your blog!
I was never in Brussels, so I don’t think we’ve met. I’m a newbie blogger and gardener (my 4th season) from Switzerland and I’m really into eco-gardening, seed saving etc. I’d love to exchange experience (seeds too!).
Todd: Those are interesting links, and new to me!
Solanum: It’s great to find you! It’s really nice someone is writing about this kind of thing in a language besides English, it helps spread the word to more people. And yes, exchanging experiences and seeds! I’d like to do both.
I have a small garden, and can’t accept many seeds from other people, but if you have something very interesting I’d like to hear about it. Likewise, if I write about something and you’d like to have some seeds, please send me an email and let me know.
I used to publish specific offers of seeds or tubers, but people would find them by searching the Internet who didn’t have any connection with this blog. Then I found myself very busy sending lots of things to others who never themselves sent out any seeds, and it just turned into too much work, and I disappointed too many people because I would forget from time to time.
I still make offers for things from time to time. If you’re reading this blog and you see something interesting, you shouldn’t be afraid to ask either.
Thanks for the link!
I’ll probably be reading the rest of your blog in January when there isn’t much else to do.