Searching for Eden

Long Island is entering the 4th week of Work From Home orders during the pandemic and "home" has suddenly become the center of many people's lives in a way it has not been for a few generations.

I am looking out over the closest thing to my own Eden that I have ever found. One half acre of a southern facing backyard that backs to a canal of the Connetquot River. It was the productive capacity of this backyard as much as anything else that drew me to this home. From what I saw at the home and garden store yesterday, carefully socially distanced of course, many people are thinking about the productive capacities of their yards right now as well.

My first step in setting up my LI garden is starting a container garden for my herbs. The planters left by the previous owners added with my own should give me an full herb garden close to my back door. The containers a fairly large, but the first winter will be a test to see who overwinters and who does not.

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New Find

I discovered a real gem this weekend - a blog called DigginFood.com with great companion videos under the name Grow.Cook.Eat.  Willi Galloway and her husband Jon are urban gardeners in Seattle at their "little urban homestead" where they grow and cook a wide variety of foods fresh from their backyard garden.The blog dates back to April 2008, which is good news since I ran through all the videos already.  They also have a book called Grow Cook Eat that I will put on my must read list.If you are looking for some fresh ideas for fresh food this is a great site!