When you grow heirloom vegetable varieties, you realize that asking what a tomato tastes like is like asking what the temperament of a dog is. For the dog, so much is dependent on the breed. For the tomato, so much
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Dissident Potato now features all of my favorite journal entries from prior versions of the blog. The current site takes a look at: •real, good food and what makes it possible; • critiques of our current food system; • hunger
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I’ve been building a real food bookshelf for years. Probably the first two books were ones my mom had when during the summer I first considered myself a gardener some 26 years ago: Carol Hupping’s “Stocking Up” and “Rodale’s Garden
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a peek into diversity Several years ago I travelled to Decorah, Iowa to visit Seed Savers Exchange‘s Heritage Farm for the first time. Before I went, I looked at their calendar of events to find that the annual tomato tasting
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I love gardening. And I love the real, good food that grows from soil I helped build. I especially love the numerous varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers I can grow because I use a diversity of heirloom and open-pollinated seeds. In fact, I’ve
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Years ago, a former intern and I were talking about our love of growing our own food. We each shared our gardening practices. He chuckled at one point and said that one time he had an unused patch of soil
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