Organic Gardening Basics

A nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law (26 February 1937)

We went to an organic gardening class at the Natick Community Organic Farm sponsored by NOFA on Saturday and came away with a ton of useful information. The above quote was by far the most eye opening as to the importance of soil quality to society. Soil is a fragile resource that must be protected and improved in the coming years to maintain crops. Read on to access my notes from the day regarding Soil, Seeds, Composting, Planting and more.

Happy Earth Day!

Here are 50 Ways to Help the Earth via Wire and Twine via Shelterrific.  I’m going to add using one less paper napkin and hanging clothes out to dry more often to my green resolutions.

Today’s “Kitchen of Tomorrow”

Although this video does not feature the Frigidaire Flair specifically, it does focus on the Frigidaire Dream Kitchen of tomorrow. Also, Paul Lukas wrote a piece entitled Today’s “Kitchen of Tomorrow” on Fast Company website that focuses on the visionary corporate marketing films in the Fifties and Sixties and compares them to current research for the Kitchen of the Future at places like MIT. He points out that fifty years after these videos were produced it is clear that the “kitchen of tomorrow may be more about preserving the domestic values of yesterday.”

April Fools!

We were invited to an April Fools’ themed party over the weekend and decided to bring some fake grilled cheese sandwiches.

Ingredients: Store bought Pound Cake, Homemade Frosting, Yellow and Red food coloring

Jay grilled the pound cake so it would pass as bread and put the frosting inside the sandwich to pose as cheese. They were pretty convincing and tasted a bit like twinkies. Here are many other April Fools’ Day Food Suggestions.