Emily Ho, a fellow Master Food Preserver trainee, foraged a Silver Lake salad. (Photo by Emily Ho) |
A Silver Lake Salad http://sustainablefoodworks.com/2012/04/09/a-silver-lake-salad/ via @misschiffonade
Mule-based bookmobiles for remote Venezuelan communities: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/20/mule-based-bookmobiles-for-rem.html
Dismiss Cyclists At Your Own Peril: The Jackson Huang Lesson – Eagle Rock, CA Patch http://eaglerock.patch.com/articles/dismiss-cyclists-at-your-own-peril-the-jackson-huang-lesson
Boulder-Like Home Office is a Working Retreat in the Garden | Designs & Ideas on Dornob http://dornob.com/boulder-like-home-office-is-a-working-retreat-in-the-garden/ via @dornobdesign
Turfgrass Infomercial at the National Arboretum? http://bit.ly/J1w3UN
These, and more linkages, are from the Root Simple twitter feed.
Does anyone have any ideas about the citrus greening problem? Is there anything we can do?
Sadly there’s nothing you can do about greening. I strongly suspect it will follow the same pattern of Pierce’s disease in Southern California–you can’t grow most grape varieties here for more than a few years. I’d say this–if you’ve got a mature citrus tree enjoy it while it lasts. If you’ve got a small one, rip it out and plant something else like a fig or pomegranate. There’s really too much citrus in California–kind of a monocrop so this problem should not come as a surprise. It’s a classic black swan caused by overspecialization.
Planting Citrus with Guava has been shown to reduce incidences of HBL. also there is some evidence of using antibacterials as a trunk injection to stop the disease but after multiple years of repeated use of antibacterials, the citrus may die from phytotoxicity.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?seq_no_115=212117
http://www.ivia.es/iocv/archivos/proceedingsVIII/8th103_108.pdf
I agree with some of your sentiments, but only with lemons… there are too many lemon trees in CA, someone make it stop! But definitely having diverse plantings is the way to go, it reduces disease, reduces water needs, reduces fertilization needs. All of it, there is no reason anyone should ONLY have citrus and ignore all the other goods. (strawberry and lemon guavas are both pretty drought tolerant once established too)
I love the mulebookmobile idea!
Wait, is that wood sorrel up in the top left? The stuff with the yellow trumpet flowers that’s all over CA all winter? Because if it’s edible, I’ve been throwing an awful lot of edible wild greens in the compost…
@Eileen: Yep, it’s tasty. Some people call it sourgrass (though it doesn’t look like grass), other people call it Bermuda buttercup, I call it oxalis, short for Oxalis pes-caprae. It’s a wood sorrel. Like all sorrels, its lemony. As its name suggests, its high in oxalic acid, which just means you shouldn’t eat it by the bucketful, but it’s really nice on sandwiches or as part of a salad, or just to chew on while you’re working outside.