milestone

we recently celebrated my parents 60th Anniversary... truly a milestone

as well, my Father turned 80 in April

i am taking time off this year from some of my pastimes including the garden

Earth Day 2010

Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.

Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability. Earth Day 2010 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.

http://www.earthday.org

neighbours

ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE and SHEARING

SUNDAY MAY 30TH 2010
12:30 TO 5:00pm
232 Eighth Road East
Stoney Creek, Ontario 905-643-0339

http://www.alpacasfromeighthandmud.com

Earth Hour - Spread The Word

http://wwf.ca/earthhour/

can you feel it?

http://www.windowfarms.org/

this looks interesting...

What are Window Farms

Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.

THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS

"Without plants we would neither breathe nor eat. On the undersurface of every leaf a million movable lips are engaged in devouring carbon dioxide and expelling oxygen. All together, 25 million square miles of leaf surface are daily engaged in this miracle of photosynthesis, producing oxygen and food for man and beast"

an excerpt taken from the introduction of Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird's great explorative work of plants and their relation to mankind

garlic

hummus, hamos, houmous, hommos, hommus, hummos, hummous or humus

whipped up a batch of hummous with garlic from our garden

~ i add both ground and whole cumin to my hummous

cabbage.... slugs, bugs & too much rain

stopped at the garden to pick a couple tomatoes & wandered over to pick a cucumber... noticed one cabbage had been picked .... i didn't have much hope for them as they seemed to be in poor shape...

picked one to bring home... sliced in half... and sure enough it didn't look very good ... plus there were at least 5 slugs and about the same amount of bugs crawling around inside

i managed to salvage some of the cabbage... i think we can blame this on too much rain

last week i got some much needed weeding in (weeds were huge) and picked a good batch of yellow beans... they were delicious

peppers

thoughts from within... voice yourself

http://voiceyourself.com

interesting new site and tube video to check out

Thoughts From Within - Woody Harrelson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj0GZQdCct8

~ Woody Harrelson ~

... soon

tomatoes ~ growing strong

pea pods

picked about 10 pea pods

this is the result ~ sweet & fresh