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, Gardening on Oct 25th, 2008
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER OCT 25
The First Frost
Though the days in midweek were warm, hot even, news of a temperature drop came almost without warning. The early hours began sunny and still. By mid-morning wind coming from the northeast picked up dramatically, bringing a cold reminder of the winter ahead.
Not knowing how low the temperature [...]
Posted in Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter, Gardening on Oct 18th, 2008
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER OCT 18
Tree Memory
Childhood is full of trees – sheltering trees, climbing ones, majestic redwoods and romantic willows, and saplings needing care. We dreamed of living in a tree house. We scaled the trunks and hung dangerously onto limbs that cut up our knees and shins just to get close to a [...]
Posted in Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter on Oct 11th, 2008
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER
OCT 11, 2008
“EAT MOSTLY PLANTS”
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants,” is Michael Pollan’s mantra for eating and living in his new book, In Defense of Food.
Pollan is not alone in waging a war of words against the food industry. In 1971 Francis Moore Lappé, food activist and writer, educated us about [...]
Posted in Bees, Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter, Gardening on Oct 4th, 2008
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER OCT 4
Wilborn In the Garden of Tomatoes
Wilborn Elliott, a beekeeper in these parts for some 77 years, spent a recent morning with me in the tomato patch, repairing the irrigation hoses and searching for tomatoes in the jungle of heirloom plants. These are the same South American natives that began their [...]
