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Sharon
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Vegetable Swaps in Northern California (or elsewhere)
Replied Dec. 25, 2008
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- Where do you live and garden?
- San Mateo Palo Alto Northern California
- How long have you been growing food?
- < 1 year
- Favorite foods:
- Thai Stir Fry with Tofu
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- At 7:53am on May 31, 2009,
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- At 7:24pm on April 1, 2009,
Batya Kagan said…
- Hi Sharon, Thanks for doing this! Me and McPete below are doing the same thing but in different locations. It is becoming quite a popular endeavor and so necessary I think in these uncertain economic times. Also, when you hear the statistic that our average food travels 2,000 miles to get to our plate, backyard farming really does some good in preventing climate change. Go Backyard Gardening!! I'm in Santa Cruz too.
- At 6:29am on January 24, 2009,
Joy Williams said…
- Hi! I'm in Santa Cruz, so I'm a neighbor!
wow, you removed your driveway! That's really cool.
I vermicompost too, should we start a group on that? I have alpacas so i have great compost too... (in fact I will let people come and take it away!)
- At 5:41am on January 16, 2009,
McPete said… - Hi Sharon, McPete here, I am just now going into business with some pals doing bicycle delivered 4x4 and 4x8 raised beds here in Southern California. We install, maintain, and leave the harvest at your door. When the time comes we will use a biodiesel truck. My wife and I also run a Food Not Lawns group which replaces front lawns with veggie gardens, and we also assist schools and churches around here with garden installations. I hope you put up some photos of your garden beds, before and after would be cool to see. I just added a bunch of our garden tonight, have a look, McPete.
- At 9:31am on January 4, 2009,
Tamra said… - I would love to know how it turns out.
- At 7:57am on January 4, 2009,
Sarina said… - Hi Sharon.
Thanks for the efforts in finding a solution for my problem. I tried contacting my local town authority with the same question. Nobody in their office could advice me on this. Their excuse was that they were no gardeners themselves, and therefore they could not give any advice on this subject. I did get the distinct feeling that they found my questioning amusing and thought I was pulling their leg. Nevermind. I shall try to find out somehow.
- At 4:14am on January 3, 2009,
Sarina said…
- Hi Sharon,
thanks for the encouraging coments on my garden. Since last year though I had not much time to keep up with it like before and it doesn`t look quite as tidy at the minute.
About the idea of growing veg in the front garden: I never received any tips or hints back, still don`t know if it`s safe to even harvest fume-infested produce. I shall try to experiment this coming year and stick a few plants out there, maybe just for show. As my front house wall faces south and gets very hot during summer I toyed with the idea of placing some tomatoes and aubergines infront of it. Not sure that I can actually eat the produce from there. The road is about 5 meters away and my garden is cut off from it by a wall that`s about 1 meter high. Traffic fumes from cars passing and busses waft about all day. I`m sceptic about food safety issues.
- At 1:54pm on December 25, 2008,
Katherine Turcotte said… - Hi Sharon - Wow, I am proud that you removed your driveway to put in some raised beds, you go girl! You will totally love gardening, just let you inner garden muse direct you. I like to stick with native plants as they require less care than fussy ornamentals - I really want a greenhouse and 2009 will be the year I will see this come to fruitation, come hell or high water! If you get a chance to go to my blog, have a peek around
http://www.enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com
I am glad you joined us, this is an awesome group of people!
How is you weather this Christmas Day?
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
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