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Report From PIA – February 18
There is one serious drawback to having a vegetable garden: It is so satisfying to go into the garden at 5:30 or 6 PM and pick dinner, that having to buy fresh lettuce and other produce in the winter absolutely sucks.
So for the past month I’ve been making plans for [...]
I began the day by reading Michael Pollan’s article, No One Cooks Here Anymore, in the New York Times Magazine. It’s a rather discouraging report about how most Americans would rather buy prepared food instead of cooking meals themselves. Sigh.
My afternoon was spent freezing and pickling the beans from my garden. I separated the youngest, [...]
Although it was warm enough for me to plant peas and lettuce this weekend, the temperatures nose-dived today, keeping me out of the garden. I had a garden consultation scheduled for this morning and yes, I froze, but after that it was a good day to take care of errands and cross things off my [...]