by Anneliese | Jan 30, 2009 | Environmental Issues, Gardening
I’ve wanted a worm bin for a while, but it was never an urgent issue. It’s not as though we don’t have a compost pile. For as long as I can remember, we’ve composted all of our food scraps. In fact, when I was a kid, I didn’t know what a garbage disposal was. I distinctly remember visiting a friend’s house and asking where they kept the compost bucket. The way I understood it, throwing food into the kitchen sink was a BAD thing....
by Geoff | Jan 29, 2009 | Gardening
On Monday afternoon I went out to my garden to harvest spinach and chard for the evening meal. However, I discovered some friends who were also helping themselves to the spinach and devastating the beets: Texas Leaf Cutting Ants (Atta texana.) I hadn’t noticed any sign of them the previous morning, but in less than a day they had eaten about one third of my beets to the ground and severely damaged the rest. Initially panicked and upset about the rapid loss...
by Geoff | Jan 21, 2009 | Gardening
Last January the Arthouse at the Jones Center here in Austin hosted an exhibit by architect Fritz Haeg called Attack on the Front Lawn. The hands-on installation presented examples of projects from Los Angeles to London to South Austin that transformed front yards into food gardens. The presentation inspired a couple of good friends of mine, Courtney Morris and Martin Perna, to rip out the front yard of their East Austin home and fill it with vegetables. Last...
by Judy | Jan 17, 2009 | Gardening, Recipes
As I used a handful of our fantastic dried tomatoes in last night’s veggie sauté it brought to mind the very thought provoking book that I read a couple years ago by Barbara Kingsolver, ‘Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life’. This is a story of how the Kingsolvers lived and ate as locally and as seasonally as possible growing much of their own food and raising their own animals. My local book club recently discussed this so I had the...
by Anneliese | Jan 16, 2009 | CobraHead, Events
In an effort to keep up with the times, CobraHead has set up a Twitter account. The rest of the CobraHead team has appointed me the designated Twitterer, and I’ve already started posting updates. Feel free to follow us at http://twitter.com/CobraHead. I will post occasional tweets about gardening, events we’re attending, and the occasional link or story that I think others might be interested in. I promise not to inundate you with lots of random or...
