Category: Food

My own experiences aren’t very useful as almost everything I grew last year was transplanted way LATE.  I started the seedlings and then had no place to put them until we built the raised beds. One exception are TOMATOES,...

GREAT resource for high desert growers: 2009-unce-fruit-tree-evaluations

We’re definitely going to plant some fruit and nut trees this spring.  Just got the order form from the  College of Southern Nevada Desert Garden Center in partnership with University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and...

We’ve been so busy this summer and constantly behind schedule, I kept taking pictures and never got around to posting them. We now have the tomato garden, a raised ENCLOSED bed on the north side of the garage, a raised bed...

A few days ago I visited neighbors who told me that it froze a couple nights earlier.  I didn’t even notice. Today I inspected the grapes and yup, a number of leaves were brown and dead, definitely frozen.  It’s not...

The horno is too big to fire up just for me and solar baking works only when the sun shines.  Since it got so cold all of sudden (32 degrees at 4 am last night), cooking is the most efficient way to stay warm at night.   I...

GREEN REVOLUTIONS IN CUBA AND VENEZUELA October 14, 2007 When most people hear the word “revolution” about either Cuba or Venezuela, images of the Cuban revolution of the 1950s with Fidel Castro at the forefront, or of Hugo...

Today I heard the Living on Earth report about the EPAs approval of methyl iodide. New Pesticide, Old Problems … The chemical also injures the nervous system and he says developing brains of children and fetuses could be...