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Who ate what where?

Greet Gijsberts

One of the difficult questions that I thought of while sitting through cookery classes at Gulf Wars, was Has anybody made a visual summary (a MAP) of who ate what, and where? I still want an answer to this.  Particularly because I want to take advantage of millennia of human agricultural experience in solving the gastronomic and color questions – I want to know what to plant in my garden. As I’m still on a "How to Be A Gardener" high, and the Meyer lemons have finally set on my particular tree, I want more progress in the garden.  I … Continue reading Who ate what where?

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Gardening 101

Greet Gijsberts

I’ve been substituting my normal History Channel habit with an online BBC gardening show from GoogleVideo the last few nights.  It’s 8 episodes of "How to Be A Gardener", and although there isn’t much in it I haven’t heard before, what is really helpful is that the whole agricultural process is shown and explained in order, in a logical learning curve. I’m finding the presentation to be very motivating.  I’m also finding that I did a very good thing last fall when I went about stealing all the leaves I could find and piling them into my beds.  This week … Continue reading Gardening 101