The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (You can also listen to this story by clicking here.) And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze … Continue reading »
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Log: July 30, 2010
The marble arch salvia has begun to shoot upward and eject small purple flowers. Two large dill plants have gone to seed. Bush basil is about a foot across, but is a bit crowded in by the cilantro and the nasturtium. Lavendar shows no apparent growth. Sunflowers are up to my chest; one has flowered … Continue reading »
GM’s Farm of the Futurama
This promotional video, produced by General Motors for the 1939 world’s fair, depicts with drunken splendor the “wonder-world of nineteen sixty,” a world that “will always grow forward.” It is a dreamy place, where lush greenery and pristine rivers (“these eternal things wrought by God”) coexist with “scientific” farms where fruit trees are grow in … Continue reading »
Garden Party: Saturday morning till Two PM + Picnic @ Noon
Dear Bennizens, The weather forecasts promise clear and pleasant weather this Saturday. Once you have awakened from dreams of The Jubilee Family Band (perf. Shingle Cottage 12 and 8 PM Friday), follow the breeze to the garden before 2 PM to help us turn work into fun. I’ll bring some bread, cheese, and salad for … Continue reading »
Eating Weeds Part 2
The last few days have been like the meaty heart of this summer nut. Though solstice came and went some weeks ago, and I can already feel the days becoming shorter, the sun still breathes hot its aethereal breath onto southern Vermont. The slope of has been ascended, and now is the time to ride … Continue reading »
Digital Collage: The Use of (Human™) Energy
Wendell Berry vs Chevron vs GM vs BP vs Shell: The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal, to use living things as if they were machines, to impose scientific (that is, laboratory) exactitude upon living … Continue reading »
Saturday Cinema
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster The following film adaptation of E.M. Forster’s 1911 short story The Machine Stops aired on a UK science fiction TV show called Out of the Unknown on October 10, 1966. The full programme, about 1 hour long, is available here. The short story, published in 1911, can be read … Continue reading »
Lots of Weeds to Eat
Step One: Find a number of weeds Step Two: Pick a number of weeds, setting aside edible ones such as purselane. Step Three: Pick off the roots and wash the edible weeds. Recipe coming soon.
A Note on Logs
In an effort free up time for the writing of more creative pieces on the blog, observations of the garden will no longer appear as much in prose. Instead, we’ll be using the form of 140-characters-or-less: tweets. These will be sent straight from the garden via cell phone, and will appear on the side bar … Continue reading »
Hackers and Growers on Planet Earth
Five days in the heart of New York City: Stone-faced in a crowd, spirited through holes in the ground, clacking across the complete concrete: buried in the earth and pressed on the clouds. Yesterday my friend Fizza and I rolled out of the island of Manhattan and back into the quiet reverie of the Green … Continue reading »
