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Joy Williams
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- Where do you live and garden?
- About 5 miles north of Santa Cruz, on 32 acres
- How long have you been growing food?
- forever!
- Dream garden travel destination:
- here, when my garden is what I want
- Favorite foods:
- Tomatoes, chiles, garlic, cheese, homemade bread, homebrewed beer
It's raining today. I have to wait a weekend before I can do my intense tomato planting regime. That should be interesting.
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Ted Kennedy, Rest in Peace
His life was colorful, but he was an absolutely stellar example of a person who fought for the common person, even th… Continue
Posted on August 26, 2009 at 3:00am — 3 Comments
Preserving Food: Using the Tools at Hand
We had enough cucumbers and zucchinis ready to pickle them this last weekend, so we went ahead and did so.
Both Tom and I thought about the fact that we have this giant brew sculpture that Tom uses for brewing and it would probably work to boil all the jars in a hot water bath rather than do two batches, which was more than likely with our rather smallish ability to do so on the stove.
Here's what we did:
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Posted on July 23, 2009 at 4:30am — 9 Comments
OK i'm just gonna blather, no agenda, trip to Italia
I have great news, I'm going to Italy soon (Sept), we have an all expense paid trip to this romantic country. I will definitely be looking at their gardening and their sustainability. It's only 3 days though. I would love to have a lot more, but this is paid by a company that's bringing us over so though I already asked Tom to ask if I can come, I can't ask more! So only three days in Italy.
But that's ok, I probably wouldn't have even gotten the chance… Continue
Posted on July 7, 2009 at 11:48pm — 8 Comments
Interview with the Producer of Food, Inc., on PBS
PBS doesn't offer an embed feature, so I'm doing it the old fashioned way, linking it.
Posted on July 7, 2009 at 11:30pm —
Ok, Mother Jones mislead me
This is very upsetting to me, and I'm disgusted with them.
I used to work on lead issues, but that was 15 years ago and I haven't kept up. 93 parts per million is NOT high.
Here's the… Continue
Posted on July 5, 2009 at 8:00pm —
Comment Wall (150 comments)
- At 8:22pm on October 30, 2009,
Joel LeGrand said… - Hi Joy,
In Backyard Kitchen Herbalists Discussion Rosemary, Sunrays said her rosemary dies every year. Can you help with your garden wisdom.
Thank you.
Happy Holidays.
- At 4:25am on September 13, 2009,
RawZi said… - You're welcome. I had no idea someone was harrassing this social network, I never saw them. I have gotten under stress from people acting cruelly online before. Maybe I made a mistake in response too in those cases, IDK. We just do our best under any given circumstances.
Thank you :)
- At 9:42am on August 10, 2009,
mario olarte dela cruz said… - i know i will learn a lot about kitchen gardening in this website and hopefully from you and your friends here. thank you! :)
- At 9:23am on August 10, 2009,
mario olarte dela cruz said…
- thanx for the add,,
can i have a lesson on how to plant tomatoes upsidedown? pls ma'am.
- At 9:52pm on July 12, 2009,
Gillian said… - Joy,
I just noticed your comment - I am signed onto chat now (I think)
- At 7:34pm on July 12, 2009,
Gillian said…
- Hi Joy I just added a link to my blog on blogspot which shows the progress of the garden since December. I think this might be a better way for me to post photos
- At 5:34am on July 12, 2009,
Ian said… - Hi, thanks for your chat request...... Sadly, I seem to have picked it up about 5 hours too late and it''s now about 3.30am in your part of the world. We will get to chat one day.... I promise
Ian
- At 6:22am on July 11, 2009,
Michelle W. Flannery said… - Good morning Joy. I've been staying busy with gardening and preserving, and the chickens and other projects. Congratulations on your upcoming trip to Italy. How exciting! You'll have to take lots of pictures and share them with us! How is your garden doing?
- At 3:20pm on June 26, 2009,
Kitty said… - Hi Joy, I just saw your youtube hummingbird video, and had happy tears in my eyes. It was very moving. Goes back to what I always say, "everything matters to someone, somewhere". You, or I, or anyone, can change the world... in this case, the world of a hummingbird. Thank you for the insight.
- At 1:21pm on June 14, 2009,
Ian said…
- Hi Joy,
I actually live about 12 miles south of the city. If you are interested you can see my property on Google Earth...Our co-ordinates are 44°42'10.17"N 0°33'40.13"E.
Are you coming to the Global Meet here in September?? I'd love to meet you.
Ian.
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HOW TO - ADD A LINK
Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....
First type the text you want to appear.... ie IAN'S PAGE
Then go back and highlight the link text.
Then hit the hyperlink button...a pictogram of a chain link.
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Forum Policy
Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.
I would be happy to hear any comments you may have. This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.
I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.
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You can refer any que
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Climate maps
Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..
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Recipes, Recipes, Recipes
Hi Everyone, I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.
If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.
They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!
BEVA'S RECIPES
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FL - Florida GA - Georgia GU
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HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST
Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.
KATE’S ADVICE
I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but
1 you have to fill it up all at once
2. it seemed mostly
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Welcome to Notes.
To view notes that are in the system hit the "all notes" button above.
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A Note about Notes
I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.
If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.
Ian
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