Growing In Home
Last night I talked about finding a treasure at home rather than afar. Today I got an email from a friend in Holland with a link to a New York Times article, a mix of words and pictures called ’Fast Food, Slow Food. This journal, or scrapbook, by Maria Kalman reminded of the beginnings of this Diary of the Worm and this web site. This site started as a result of my contact with Growing Power and the Milwaukee Renaissance. I begin these posts as observations on building a home model of Growing Power.
After I formed the web site I added the aspect of nonviolence, first calling the site Nonviolent Worm. Recently, however, the nonviolent side of this site has been the major focus of posts and web pages. The article in the NYT reminded me it was time to regain some balance and move more toward the growing power side.
I remember that when I went to a disastrous peace action meeting I talked about taking a Pound of Composted Soil to any future type of similar meeting. Recently I have often talked about getting my hands dirty with nourishing soil in the sun room, my winter home growing space.
I did some things in the sun room. In fact most of the ingredients in tonight’s salad at dinner came from the sun room. However, busy with other things I did not develop its potential. So today, before I took to the internet or other projects I worked in the sun room. I cleaned about half and took some preparation to grow more in this space.
The picture shows the half of room with the growing box in it. There are salad greens growing in the top of box. The water drains to a lower level where some spouts and herbs will grow, and then the water, (tea) goes in a box to be collected and used again as fertilized water. On one side you can see the vertical grower where the basil from summertime still flourishes. In the days to come I will work on the other half of the room and plant much more. This small space has a lot of space, vertical and horizontal, that can be used for growing. The garden may be dead for now but growing in home goes on.
Comments
(:commentboxchrono:)