Dinner and speaking by (Multi.) New York Times best selling author, Michael Pollan.
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Thursday, May 2, 2013 – 7:00 pm – Beth El Synagogue
5224 West 26th Street – Saint Louis Park, MN 55416
http://www.besyn.org/pollan
A portion of the proceeds of this event will go to benefit Appetite for Change, a North Minneapolis nonprofit which seeks to build individual, family, and community capacity to use growing cooking and eating food as vehicles for social change.
(I will not be at this event due to other commitments on Thursday evenings.)
Thanks for stopping buy!
Sara
The Winter Harvest Handbook, Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses, by Eliot Coleman is a very detailed and exhaustive look at winter greenhouse gardening in zone 5. I am loving the look of the greenhouses on page 64, with snow piled up around the bases of a few large greenhouses!
This book not only talks about traditional greenhouse structures in winter and how to utilize them, but many other alternative ways of gardening in the winter time. Good tips on which vegetables to grow, pest control (different season = different pests!), and garden tools are peppered liberally through out the entire book.
This is an EXCELLENT companion to Carol and Chuck’s Winter Greenhouse book.
I look forward to using both books this Spring/Summer and into next Fall and Winter as I take on the adventure of building and using my own greenhouse in the winter in zone 4/5!
I was just reading my Farmer’s Almanac for this year and found out the meaning behind the term “Victory Garden.”
In 1588 Queen Elizabeth sent riders out into the country side to tell the folks out there to prepare for war. One of the main things that was told to everyone through out the land was to plant extra food in their home gardens because without it they would be going hungry. This is was part of the reason the English were victorious over the Spanish invasion!
Likewise during WW2 the department of agriculture told people to start home gardens (which at that time were few and far between here in the U.S.) to relieve the demand for food in the grocery stores. Many families took this advice and ate better (and a lot healthier) for it!
So, the Victory Garden is just that – a sustainable way for families to maintain themselves during times of war. Thinking about all of the ways this effects the whole country is amazing to me. A war can be won due to sustainable living, in particular – gardening for our selves and not relying on the grocery stores to be there for us.
This is just as true now as it was back then. Gardening this way can conserve energy and also keep us healthier!
