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In the Bookshed: Keeping the Harvest
Now that it’s food-storage season (so quick! where did the summer go?) I am once again reaching for canning, preserving, drying advice in the form of this most excellent book, first published in 1990: Keeping the Harvest. I picked this up several years ago… Continue Reading “In the Bookshed: Keeping the Harvest”
In the Bookshed: Independence Days
Independence Days | Sharon Astyk I should warn you upfront that no sooner was I done this book, that I started clearing a corner of my basement for long-term food storage. Not necessarily because Sharon Astyk makes a compelling case for the end of… Continue Reading “In the Bookshed: Independence Days”
Bookish: Are we living on a new planet?
Following a long foray into fiction to the exclusion of anything else, I’ve had a spate of non-fiction come into my life this month – thanks to the Vancouver Public Library online ordering system which spit several books out to me just as my… Continue Reading “Bookish: Are we living on a new planet?”
The End of Major Combat Operations
“What if it was your country that was invaded?” Later when I was… back in Brooklyn, I reconsidered his question. What if the bakery down the street had been destroyed by katyushas? What if the traffic cops didn’t speak English and were scared enough… Continue Reading “The End of Major Combat Operations”
The Backyard Bookshed Project.
I am definitely getting the camera out this weekend! We’ve got it all going on in the garden now – including potatoes, scallions, broccoli, and nasturtiums starting in the last two days! Not to mention almost-edible radishes and joi choi. In about two weeks… Continue Reading “The Backyard Bookshed Project.”
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