Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.When winter renders it too cold to tie dye, one of my favorite refuges is my seed catalog collection. I've dabbled in gardening for years, but never to the point of growing most of my own veggies through an entire season. This year, I decided to try doing just that. Then I had the idea to live blog my garden. It's not going to be big or fancy, and it may or may not be a delicious success. But since the whole point of a blog is for people to read it, here it is.
-- Oscar de la Renta
First baby greens of 2014
For me, tending a garden is a liberating act. I’m freer from the nutritionally void produce at the grocery store; studies show radical declines in the nutritional value of vegetables thanks to industrial, soil-depleting methods. I feel less responsible for the millions of tons of endocrine-disrupting, life-killing pesticides dumped on soil. Combining my garden yields with community supported agriculture, I know, really know, where a large percentage of my food comes from. A home garden is a form of peaceful protest, a way of participating less in a corporate food culture I think is harmful to our health and the environment.Couldn't have said it better myself.