Occupy A Garden-Occupy Our Food Supply #F27 Blogger Day of Action~~~ Rainforest Action Network Blog

OCCUPY A GARDEN UPDATE:

From December to July a lot change in the Garden Here's how MY Garden looks right now in July, 2012
The barren-ness is gone.  The rocks are covered in green.  Things do change.

My contribution to OCCUPY OUR FOOD day

Well I'm kinda late to this Blogger Day of ACTion of Occupy Our Food Supply, But I'm Here.

There's an Hour and a half left of the day of February 27th and I'm taking part of this Global Blog, Right Here Right Now.

I think my Garden Blog Itself is enough to be a testimonial about what I think about OCCUPY OUR FOOD day. I Think putting up a sign on my front yard with OCCUPY A GARDEN is enough.

That's what I did.

Willie Nelson and Anna Lappe weigh in with their own thoughts about OCCUPY OUR FOOD day at this link. about farms and farmers and fresh vegetables.

I may not be a farmer, but I'm a small farmer, It's called a gardener.

And I love and adore my garden.

So there.


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It's Gettting To Be That Time Again....Woo Hoo....‘Why Do You Garden?’ 100 Comments — A Way to Garden

‘Why Do You Garden?’ Nears 100 comments — A Way to Garden


Over 100 Comments on why People Garden.

Reading each one individually is very enlightening. The comments that I do Not like are the "I'm the A Number Garderner of All Time" Comments.

All garderners are different, all have their own gardening style. All do it for their different reasons. There is no one right way to garden, nor why.

You just Do IT.

Can't wait to just DO IT again.



Every photo from my Garden In a Collage

 OCCUPY A GARDEN, This Year.













Here's a Great Read to get you started by Ruth Stout.... The lady who accidentally got it right and cried, "Eureka" louder than anyone else since Archimedes (and liked to garden in the buff).

Here's Her Book

Talking about her composting method Ruth says the “aha” came one spring when the plow man hadn’t come yet to till, and she was eager to get planting. She saw that the asparagus (a long-lived perennial vegetable crop) was already up and growing, right through the layers of fallen leaves and such. “I walked over and said to the asparagus, ‘We don’t have to plow for you; why do we have to plow for the other vegetables?’” Stout recalls. “And the asparagus said, “You don’t.’”

St Francis of Assisi Garden Lawn Ornament Brought Inside To Escape The Wind and The Cold, Makes For A Great Photo Op In Light and Shadow

Needless to say St Francis of Assisi is my favorite Garden Figure.

 Garden Gnomes are fine, but the life of Assisi is very very interesting.

I took him inside one day because the wind was blowing so hard and knocked him over outside.

He survived unscathed, and now he's inside where it's warm and nice.

Adding to that fact he is treasured by me for his

sentimental value given to me by people who are gone now.

Early Morning Light of St Francis of Assissi
Lawn Ornament  taken inside to escape the cold.
It's All Natural Light, All Natural Shadow.
No Photoshop and I Love It.

This particular light caught my eye
early in the morning walking by.
It lasted for less than 5 minutes.
That was the window (literally)
of opportunity I had to shoot this.

Great shadows on the wall in the early morning
light.

All Shadow
No photoshop.
All Natural.

All Shadow
No Photoshop
All Natural.
Through Lace Curtains
In the Morning
LIGHT

A Collage Of Every Picture I've Uploaded On This Blog~~~~AVery Cool Montage

Welcome: OCCUPY THE GARDEN Photo's

My addition to the cause

I grew the squash, I handpainted the 2 signs,
I added the sun and Voila'.
DIY all the way






This article tells the story of how the 99% are Family Farmers and I would add gardeners
to the list also because what is a gardener, but a little farmer.
The title of the article is
HOW OCCUPY WALL STREET IS BRIDGING
THE  RURAL/URBAN DIVIDE and it is well worth reading.

Just when you think you are the only ONE, Lo and Behold,
the others come out of the woodwork to be heard.

Why Would A Gardening Farmer Occupy Wall Street? The Radical Homemaker Tells Us Why

So I don't usually get political on this blog, but when I read This blogpost from another garden/farm blogger, Shannon Hayes, I had to share it.

As a rule, I don’t do protests. I don’t occupy anything, except my home and the farm. I am a country girl, and the key to living a happy agrarian existence lies in having a certain personality type – I’m a recluse at heart. I can stay home for weeks on end and never crave to see a soul. Living in the sticks, that’s a good thing. It is this personality trait that enables farmers to do what they do.

…Which is not to say that I disagree with protests, political uprisings, or the like. But rather than join demonstrations and marches, I choose to make my voice heard in a different way. I live my opposition. I don’t like the consumer culture, so I live a life that largely excludes it. I don’t like the rapacious nature of industrial agriculture, so I live and work to steward the land in a way that honors Mother Earth. Rather than protest for a day, a few weeks or a few months, I protest with my life energy that there is a different and better way.

But I do support protesting. In fact, I support it wholeheartedly, and I am grateful for those who have the courage to do it. But my personality type leaves me utterly petrified at the idea of joining a crowd and adding my physical presence to the masses. I am nervous in cities, skittish in crowds, wary of large organized gatherings. And that’s the reason I haven’t joined Occupy Wall Street. I have other excuses, too. I’ve got little kids at home, food to cook, sausages to make, turkeys to sell, farmers’ markets to attend…I am so busy living my life of protest that I really don’t have time to protest.

But those organizers have figured out that I’m hiding. And they’ve figured out my excuses. They are asking farmers, community gardeners, food activists, and food workers to come down and Occupy Wall Street on Sunday. I know it is last minute, but they figured out things are slowing down on the farm right about now. They’re not asking us to camp out or commit our lives, they only want 4 hours of our time, from 2pm to 6pm. I hear that call not only as a third generation farmer, but also as a mother, a home cook, and rural citizen who’s life is tied to the flow of seasons, the health of the land, and the vitality and diversity of a locally-sourced food supply. Mom and Dad are watching the kids, and Bob and I are heading down. We should be back home in time for bed.

 December 4th has come and gone, but I thought this great blog, from a great gardening and farm type of woman was worth sharing. Her viewpoints speak volumes to  the rest of us, out here, out there.  She  is letting us  know that there are others. "THE Others"

Brother Nature Produce: Greg Willerer

The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer by Wendell Berry

Not Much Happening In The Garden, So Here's The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer, By Wendell Berry.

Thanksgiving Thanks~~~Thank You Rhodes Frozen Bread Dough~~Thank You Libby's Canned Pumpkin & Frozen Pie Shells ~~~Thank The Seeds & Me For The Pumpkins I Grew & The Hunny Bear !!!

Yummy Yum Yum
and Thanks to Somebody
called Hunny Bears
for being a good food provider

A plate of Bread Rolls & A Loaf of Bread
made from frozen bread dough

A Punkin' Pie made from Libby's Canned Punkin'
and frozen pie crusts

Foraging Fever | On Point with Tom Ashbrook

Foraging Fever | On Point with Tom Ashbrook



Nothing much going on in the garden these days, so here's an audio delight link to ON POINT about foraging for food in the wild and other places. (No, not dumpsters)

I recently foraged for rosehips and black walnuts and loved every minute of it.

It's Black Walnut Time Again In The Garden

From these black beauties of black walnuts will come
  other goodies.
Nutmeats and Tyed Dyed T-Shirts
that I hand Dye from the walnut stain are just a couple
of things.

The process of husking and cleaning walnuts
is a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.



For the complete process on how I shuck, hull and husk black walnuts, go to this previous blogpost, from TO WEED OR NOT TO WEED THAT IS THE GARDEN that I photo journalized last year.

Collecting Rosehips and Making a CenterPiece

First I collected rosehips, complete with the
prickers. For anyone who's ever collected rosehips, you know
that this can get bloody because sometimes there are gigant thorns
on the rosehip bush, along with the tiny thorns on the rosehips themselves.
I personally wera a rubber raincoat with a hood and gloves.Not a task
for the faint of prickly heart that's for sure.



Then I bundled individual strands into
bunches




Then I picked some evergreen boughs
from a nearby tree




The final product  is what you see here.
(the giant pinecone came from South Carolina
that I collected while on vacation)



Stuffed Peppers On The Half Shell Filled With Eggplant and A Cheddar Cheese Mix

The  Bell Peppers
Even a Black One
(and yes they all pretty much taste the same)

The finished product

Here's the recipe I modified (as usual) you got to work with what you got on hand.

I substituted white cheddar cheese for the romano and parboiled the peppers for less baking time. I baked them for 1/2 hour at 400 degrees.  I also handpicked 2 fresh eggplants which are not shown (forgot to photograph them) 

It tasted great. It's simple and dee-lish.

Here's the recipe:

Stuffed Peppers With Eggplant

about 5 green or red bell peppers, in halves

1 large eggplant
3 eggs
1/4 cup Italian style bread crumbs
1/2 lb. Parmesan or Romano cheese 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
pinch each basil and oregano
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
salt and pepper, to taste
paprika
butter

Remove peel from eggplant and cut into 2 inch chunks; cover with water and cook until tenderook  Drain well and let dry for 10 minutes.

Grind cheese in food processor (if not already grated) and add eggplant to puree. Add remaining ingredients (except peppers).
Slice peppers in halves and stuff with eggplant mixture. Rub outside of peppers with a little olive oil.
Sprinkle filling with buttered bread crumbs and sprinkle lightly with a little paprika.
Bake for 1 hour in a preheated 375°F oven.

When The Last of the Hummingbird Feeders Gets Taken Down, You Know It's A Sign

 My biggest punkin'
with the Sunflowers That I adore as Back Ground

I dislike when my Hummingbirds fly south.

I believe they took off somewhere around September 15th. 

So it's my job to take the hummigbird feeders down until next year.

I also picked my big ass punkin that I grew from a seed from last

year's punkin I bought at a roadstand.

Nothing says Fall or Autumn has arrived quite like a punkin.

The annual taking down of the Humming Bird feeders
makes me sad !!!
I didn't even get to say goodbye to those tiny tiny
birds I adore watching outside my
window
Every morning.

Bye Bye Hummingbird Feeder
Till Next Year

When My Little Humming -bird Friends Fly Back
From where ever they fly to.

SAVE ADAM'S GARDEN

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I Took a Photo of Every Punkin' I Got Growing Right Now