Our Garden

10/09/2026

10/09/2026

10/09/2026

09/26/2026

The end of the season is always bittersweet. Soon I will harvest this broomstick sorghum with 10 other plants and maybe i can make one broom lol. I will harvest all the grain first...this variety is good for popping just like popcorn. I also have to harvest and thresh my 25 or so Amaranth of 4 varieties, and boil down the bright red flower plums after threshing the seed out into a magenta colored dye. My nightshade leaf plant from the DRC has bunches of dark berries that make a purple dye when boiled down (remembering to harvest all of those seeds).
So, a broom, natural dyes, and seed for using and saving will help me in this time of harvest and saying goodbye to the annuals that served us well this Spring and Summer.

02/03/2026

Tonight at 7pm Eastern -- learn how to start a Slow Food Chapter.

Ready to bring a Slow Food chapter to your community? Learn how to build one from the ground up, and launch events that connect local food advocates around good, clean and fair food for all.

12/13/2025

Why are carrots usually orange? Here is a summary of the strange agricultural history!

12/09/2025

Thinking about growing Ethiopian Teff next year. It is a small grain but i assume if i tighten my mill all the way like i did for my amaranth harvest i should be able to get a suitable flour for this recipe!

12/05/2025

Ashwagandha is a common w**d in Jordan...but such a powerful medicinal! I grew it in the model OUR (Peace and Unity Revival) Garden this year in my front Birdie's raised bed i call the UN because it had a plant from every major region of agriculture in the world! Let's not just grow food for our health, also let's grow herbal medicines!

12/05/2025

Origins of Coffee!