Growing Your Own Food is Like Printing Your Own Money: Ron Finley’s TED Talk
...und and have meetings. If you want to meet with me come to the garden with your shovel so we can plant some s**t.” Amen....
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Roasted Asparagus
...e: everything tastes better roasted. Even vegetables. I can’t think of one vegetable that doesn’t roast nicely, and asparagus is one of my favorites. All vegetables are roasted the same way, basically, but here’s an asparagus specific recipe. Roasted Asparagus Pre-heat your oven to 400F (is that 200C?) Trim the pale, woody ends off of the asparagus. Lay the asparagi down on a cookie sheet or in a baking dish–or hey, even a roasting pan! Somewhere...
Edible and Tasty Arugula Flowers
Our winter vegetable garden is just about finished. This week I’m going to tear out most of it and plant tomatoes and a few other summer veggies. I may keep some of the arugula that has gone to flower a little longer. Why? arugula flower taste great in salads bees love them arugula self seeds readily The flowers, which taste like the leaves, are a reminder of my favorite time of year: arugula season. Each year I curse myself for not planting more...
Getting Hardscaping Right
...tain. Every home needs a “hide the s@#t fence.” There needs to be a place to put potting soils, shovels, compost piles etc. I’m just about to embark on a couple of building projects–extending the back patio deck, building permanent vegetable beds and the aforementioned hide the s@#t fence. This time I’m going to get it right! How have your hardscaping endeavors gone? What have you done right and wrong? Have you found hardscaping solutions that did...
Update on Los Angeles’ Backwards Parkway Regulations
...And at the risk of tooting my own horn, I pointed out the foolishness of LA’s parkway regs back in 2010....