It’s that time of year again! Time to replant the pollinator garden. We are so grateful to Caroline of Riggins Landscaping for her expertise in choosing the perfect plants for our rooftop pollinator garden! We love watching (and trying hard not to chase) the pollinators that enjoy our pollinator garden. We hope they love allContinue reading “Pollinator Garden: October 5, 2016”
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Seasonal Garden: October 4, 2016
The weather has finally started to cool down and it is time to start planting our fall garden! So far, we have planted sugar snap peas, cauliflower, chard, lettuce, and varieties of kale. Thank you to the Wylde Center for providing us with strong seedlings for our garden!
Westside Farmers Market: October 2nd
It’s starting to look like fall around the Westside Farmers Market!
Honeybees: September 28, 2016
We love watching our honey bees hard at work – buzzing in and out of their hive all day long.
Muscadines: September 27, 2016
We have itty bitty little baby muscadines growing in our fruit and berry garden!
Herb Garden: September 26, 2016
Our mint is growing like a weed, as always! And our rosemary bush is starting to look a little bit like a rosemary tree!
Weeds We Love and Weeds We Love to Hate
On our rooftop garden, we find a surprising amount of plants growing wild – seeds have an incredible ability to travel (even to a rooftop)! Some of the plants we find growing on our rooftop garden we do not love and try to weed as soon as we see them, like this one: Others, weContinue reading “Weeds We Love and Weeds We Love to Hate”
Pollinator Garden: September 25, 2016
Our pollinators are loving our pollinator garden! Check out what we saw flying around our garden today! Many of the plants in our pollinator garden are showing signs of life in new foliage and colorful blooms.
Terra Madre: Day 5
The last day of Terra Madre began with “Around the World in a City Square.” In this class we traveled around the Piazza della Repubblica to visit shops and stands of immigrants from around the world that have now settled in Turin, Italy. Our first stop was at spice shop owned by a woman fromContinue reading “Terra Madre: Day 5”
Terra Madre: Day 4
This morning’s walk down Garibaldi was the sunniest (but quietest) yet. Sundays must start slowly around here. Our first class of the day was a presentation and tasting workshop called “Honey from Around the World.” We heard from beekeepers from Italy, Ethiopia, Brazil, the Philippines, Indonesia, Macedonia, and Japan and had the opportunity to exploreContinue reading “Terra Madre: Day 4”
Tending Our Common Ground 