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Archive for March, 2009

White House Garden

Michelle Obama and a bunch of elementary students will soon break ground on a White House vegetable garden! I haven’t felt this good about government in a long time.

The Mother of Slow Food

Alice Waters on 60 Minutes talking Slow Food

First Lady on Community Gardens

“I’m a big believer in community gardens, both because of their beauty and for their access to providing fresh fruits and vegetables to so many communities across this nation and the world.” – First Lady, Michelle Obama, Ferbruary 19th 2009

Hope for a Compassionate War on Drugs

Hope for a compassionate War on Drugs?

Tractors and Lamborghinis

Jim Rogers: “You’re going to see stockbrokers driving taxis. The smart ones will learn to drive tractors, because they’ll be working for the farmers. It’s going to be the 29-year-old farmers who have the Lamborghinis.” Read more…

Rain!

Rain! I can’t help but be grateful, even though I’m cold and can’t plant tomatoes.

Mapping Tools for the GIS Impaired Designer

Creating an effective landscape design requires an understanding of your site’s location, orientation, boundaries, slope, soil, and watershed. Fortunately GIS and the internet makes putting together a map of all this data relatively easy for anyone who has access to a computer.

Pray for rain…

Everyone focus on conjuring precipitation. After a week of drying winds, my seedlings would much appreciate some of the 60% chance of rain later this week.

Under Construction

Please bear with me while I update my site. Thanks!

Austin Chronicle likes the Fonda Garden!

My work at the Fonda San Miguel Restaurant vegetable garden was recently featured in The Austin Chronicle.