Eat locally, seasonally produced food. Buy direct from the farmers and the makers. Grow your own, make your own. Start a farmers' market today.
Posted in Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter on Jun 21st, 2008
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER JUNE 21
Embracing Nature
Not that my song, in such a scanty space, So large a subject fully can embrace. –Dryden.
The Minoans of ancient Crete, a Mediterranean island at the watery crossroads of Africa, Asia and Europe, knew that the snake had a remarkable purpose. The surviving art of this Bronze Age civilization [...]
Posted in Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter, Gardening on Jun 14th, 2008
FSM NEWSLETTER JUNE 14
An Edible Park
“You can solve all the problems of the world in a garden.”
Geoff Lawton
Finding new solutions and looking at chronic problems in different ways begins in the garden. Masanobu Fukuoka author of One Straw Revolution teaches us, “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation [...]
Posted in Butterflies, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter on Jun 7th, 2008
CHASING BUTTERFLIES
by Sandra Harper
“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
-Vladimir Nabokov
A recent mid-morning in late May was quite warm, and getting hot. Planting tomatoes on a day when the moon was favorably aligned and working to beat the heat, I was focused on digging and preparing the soil. I envisioned the [...]
