Heirloom Gardening, Food and Other Thoughts
This comes from a recent post on Anarchocyclist.
The British Columbia Field Ornithologists (BCFO) recently called for a ‘steady state economy’, that fluctuates but doesn’t expand as a necessary step to conserve biodiversity. The details of this can be seen on their about page.
Noteworthy is the following from their preamble:
There is increasing evidence that North American economic growth is having negative effects on the long-term ecological and economic welfare of North America and the world.
Here is another photo essay from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh is where a large number of commercial farmers have been taking their own lives as a result of the financial pressures they find themselves under. This photo essay is a celebration of biodiversity, seed sovereignty and the contribution of women.
An article on Daily Kos has a few more ideas on bees and CCD.
I posted earlier on my own lack of bees this year, and interestingly I just remembered I live right next to a mobile telephone cell.
My garden is in the shadow of this array of antennas, and my mobile phone always has a full strength signal at home:
Seed heads are forming on my spelt plants. It looks good so far…
I’m growing three different kinds of lettuce that I got from Lieven, my plant breeding friend in Belgium.
Sherwood:
Pinokkio (Pinocchio):
and Doree de Printemps:
I guess pictures of lettuce can only be so exciting, but if you could taste it you would be amazed. Home grown lettuce is so nice!
