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Calm
Before the storm. Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes Tagged: back-to-nature, backyard poultry, growing food, home, kitchen garden, living in suburbia, nature, organic gardening, outdoors, photography,...
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Suddenly, Spring
You wait all winter for never-coming spring and then, like love in a John Green novel, it happens all at once.* Those scribbled lists: to-do, to-order, to-clean, to-fix? Too late! If you didn’t order...
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Medley
Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes Tagged: back-to-nature, edible lawn, growing food, kitchen garden, living in suburbia, organic gardening, photography, spring
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Color(Full)
Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes Tagged: flowers, growing food, living in suburbia, nature, organic gardening, photography, summer
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The World’s Most Expensive Frittata
Years figuring out how to grow broccoli, countless hours waiting for it to grow, tons of cash paying for everything those efforts entailed –ladies and gentlemen, I finally present to you: a slice of...
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Peas, Release Me!
We wait weeks & weeks for peas & then they just won’t stop! (And won’t we miss them when they’re gone?) Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes Tagged: back-to-nature, edible lawn, food, growing...
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Is it July 4th?
Is the corn knee-high? Happy Independence Day, peeps! Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes Tagged: edible lawn, food, growing food, history, holidays, living in suburbia, nature, organic gardening, photography
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Hush!
Don’t tell the squirrel… Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes Tagged: animals, back-to-nature, food, growing food, living in suburbia, nature, organic gardening, photography, wildlife
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Eleven Shades of Grey
What? what? :) Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes Tagged: animals, back-to-nature, backyard poultry, birds, growing food, humor, pets, photography, raising ducks
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Life With Less Pizza
Don’t want to freak anyone out but I read the scariest thing a while back and thought I’d share it with you guys instead of holding it all in. Okay, here it goes: Tomatoes like to be buzz-pollinated....
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We Eat Sunshine
Well, sorta. Let’s give thanks for plants that convert sunshine to food so that we can eat. Or as Wendell Berry puts it, “the harvest of sunlight”. Magic + delicious! Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes...
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Summer/Fall
Copyright 2015, Lori Fontanes Tagged: back-to-nature, flowers, growing food, home, living in suburbia, organic gardening, photography, seasons
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Talk Now, Eat Later
Isn’t it time to stop growing food like it’s 1999? The 21st century needs better ways to grow/cook/share/eat. And the world can’t wait–we needed better yesterday. So now’s the time late to start...
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More Food, Less Phood
We have more food now than at any other time in human history but can we really call all of it food? Not talking the above-photo’d fruit & veggies but rather those rainbow-colored, flavor-injected...
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The Demon in School Lunches
Marcel Proust had his madeleine but me, I had a peach. As it happens, not an American peach and certainly not a run-of-the-mill apple or orange, the kind of fruit frequently tossed from school lunch...
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Posted!
Think this will work? Copyright 2016, Lori Fontanes Tagged: animals, back-to-nature, growing food, humor, living in suburbia, nature, outdoors, photography, wildlife
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5 Top Tips: Caring for Ducks in Cold Weather
Every year, the digital elves at WordPress gently suggest that I consider writing more about ducks and cold weather. According to their algorithmic analysis, many people need this information and seek...
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We Don’t Know Beans
Let’s learn more! In celebration of International Year of Pulses*, Palm Rae Urban Potager and What the Ducks! announce this year’s Blogger Action Day. Mark your calendars for February 17, 2016 and...
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Bean There, Cooked That
In Celebration of International Year of the Pulses Year of the Bean Blog Roll My blog buddy, Robbie of Palm Rae Urban Potager, starts us off with a beautiful essay on the benefits of beans Cherie...
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Free Pumpkins
1 volunteer plant = 30 pumpkins. Backyard farming rarely this easy, peeps. Copyright 2016, Lori Fontanes Tagged: edible lawn, growing food, living in suburbia, organic gardening, outdoors,...
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