Preparing for Autumn
Posted on | August 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
As many of you know, we are approaching my absolute favorite time of year – autumn. I love it, but can easily get overwhelmed with all that the end of summer brings. Each year, I try to improve my green efforts and simplify things for the coming season. This year, I have a number of projects I’d like to work on. I may not get to everything I’m listing here, but I’m going to try!
::Preserving the bounty of food coming into my home.
Sauerkrautin'!
Between my humble garden and our CSA share, we are overrun with zucchini, squash, fava beans, cabbage and herbs. I’ve already dried a whole lot of parsley which should keep us going through the winter and started my first batch of sauerkraut. On my to-do list: fava bean hummus, herbal vinegars, pesto, zucchini preservation (dry it? freeze it?) and zucchini cookies. I’d really like to try canning, but I’m not sure I’ll have the time to get into that. It’s been many years since I’ve canned, and I’d have to do a lot of research to remember how to do it!
I had dreams of traveling around Oregon this summer to pick up strawberries and peaches and other delights in the Willamette Valley, and to end the summer with a pantry bursting with jams, pickles and other canned food. Oh, and a freezer full of dried berries, veggies and grains. But I didn’t have the time, money, foresight or organizational skills to get it done this year! There’s always next time! 
::Planning the autumn garden.
I’m not sure I’ll be successful at an autumn garden in this climate, but I’m going to try. I’m thinking of carrots, spinach, tat soi, beets, rutabagas, etc. I’m going to shovel out some of the dirt in our raised bed, and buy some windows from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore to create a makeshift cold frame. If it works, I’ll be able to plant a little sooner in spring.
::Figure out how to make a root cellar.
I’m trying to figure out a way to store root veggies for the winter. I’ve read that you can bury a cooler in the ground (or other similar, supposedly easy options) and that the veggies will last for a few months like that. I’d really love to try that around the side of the house.
::Winterize our doors and windows.
Last winter, our heating bills were sky-high and I don’t want to have to deal with that again. We learned some tricks here and there to keep the cost down as the winter went on, but there are a few things we should have done right away to save ourselves some money. Putting curtains on the windows would have helped a lot. The cold streams through the window panes in our house during the cold months and those awful blinds don’t do anything to insulate them. A few months ago, I put up curtains in the bedroom and kitchen. Now I need to finish the curtains for my office, the living room, and the two back doors (which are mostly glass).
We’re also looking for a good solution for keeping the cold from sneaking in under the doors, which it is all too apt to do. Last year, one of the back doors would freeze shut due to the ice that formed at its base. That’s not good! I may end up making door snakes, but those are annoying because you have to move them every time you open the door – something I don’t want to deal with. So I may cave on my no-plastic resolution and buy those little things that slide under the door, insulating them on both sides without having to be moved when the door is opened.
::Finish my first sweater!
I am just starting on my second sleeve, which means I’m only about 1/3 of the way done with it, but I hope to have it finished before the end of September, so I can use it during the cooler months. My only problem is that I’m working on another, time-sensitive project that I have to finish, first.
::Clean up this blog.
This is the one I keep procrastinating. I love my little blog here so much, but I realized that I’ve come here to exercise my creativity over the past year or so, when I wasn’t using it for other projects (which I should have been doing). Therefore, this blog got really cluttered really quickly with things I started and then dropped. The categories are a mess, there are too many pages that don’t need to be there, etc. It needs to be cleaned up, reorganized and pared down. The task is so daunting, though, that I’ve been avoiding it. I really want to have it cleaned up by October 1st, though. So I’ll try!!
What are you doing to prepare for autumn?
The Garden in August
Posted on | August 22, 2010 | 4 Comments
I’m thrilled to say that the garden has turned out okay. I am still baffled by the amount of seedlings I lost, and am a bit disappointed about some of the things that didn’t turn out. However, I am very grateful for what IS working out there. I dumped more compost on the garden soon after my Stasis post and was thrilled to find the garden exploding about two weeks later.
B helping me harvest.
We are now getting about 4 zucchinis a week, which we have been mostly giving away, as our CSA box contents have quadrupled thanks to our farmer’s huge success at her farm. I have a TON of tomatoes on the vine and three cucumbers! I’m thrilled about those, for two reasons – they are super hard to grow here in Central Oregon and therefore, I consider them luxury veggies.I’m still getting strawberries, basil, chives, mint and sage. The herbs will be dried for future use.
I’m sorry to say that my tree died. However, I went ahead and bought a small, tapered evergreen in a pot to satisfy my need for a tree. I love it and am happy that it will remain green and adorable throughout the winter months. (A month later, I still haven’t heard back from our landlords about getting the okay for planting a tree, despite my weekly email reminders.)
Our lawn is still as awful as ever. The entire middle portion, where there is no shade, is dead. We’re already running the sprinklers four times a day, and paying over $20 more each month for the water usage than usual. We can’t afford to spend more on it, and frankly, I can’t swallow the thought of using more water in our naturally dry, semi-desert area just to keep a 10×5 plot of grass alive. It seems ridiculously wasteful. (Hence why a tree would be useful. All the areas of our lawn that are in semi-shade are thriving without excessive water.)
If we can’t get our tree, my plan for next year is to set out several large pots for the zucchinis (so they won’t take over my garden plot again). The veggie plants seem to LOVE it at the bottom of our sloping lawn right up against the fence. Between the low ground, the direct sunlight and the heat bouncing off the fence, it must be extra warm there. I think the zucchinis will thrive there and offer shade to the grass. Unfortunately, the pots will kill the grass beneath them, but it’s dead already, so who cares!
Unfortunately, we are supposed to have temps between 29 and 39F tonight. I’ll pull my tomatoes in just in case, and see if I can get a tarp over our monstrous zucchini plant. I’m praying we don’t get a freeze. I don’t want to lose my garden. Or our CSA, which ends after the freezes start to kill things off. Such is the gardening life in Central Oregon – freezes through June, and then again in August. Our only really safe month is July. You really have to be prepared here, watching the weather reports and know that a freeze can come at any time. So cross your fingers for me!
Garbage Moguls
Posted on | August 20, 2010 | No Comments
I was contacted today by someone who had read my Examiner column (which I haven’t updated in months due to the time I’m spending on Five Seed) and who wanted me to write about a TV program called Garbage Moguls airing on National Geographic on Saturday, August 21st. I did a little research on it and it looks pretty legit – and interesting. I decided to post about it here rather than on Examiner for reasons I won’t bore you with here.
Photo credit: McKeown/Silent Crow Arts
In any case, here is the press release:
With shows like Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives of New Jersey as popular as they are, it seems it was only a matter of time before a New Jersey TV show about ACTUAL trash got made. Only this time, it’s about Trenton, NJ’s TerraCycle and saving the planet one Capri Sun pouch at a time instead of botox and booze and behaving badly.
On Saturday August 21st, National Geographic will air three all-new episodes of Garbage Moguls, an inside look at the zany way TerraCycle, “the coolest little start-up in America” (Inc. magazine), develops products made completely out of trash. Led by Princeton University drop-out and worm poop connoisseur Tom Szaky, the show follows TerraCycle’s team of young “eco-capitalists” as they brainstorm, argue over, go dumpster diving for, and eventually create new products that help solve America’s waste problem.
INTERACT WITH TERRACYCLE
During the Garbage Moguls marathon, fans can follow the TerraCycle crew on Twitter live from Tom Szaky’s viewing party as they tweet behind-the-scene info (and any funny things that happen at the party!) during the broadcast. Follow @TerraCycle and use #garbagemoguls to get in on the conversation! Also, Facebook fans can enter to win cool TerraCycle prizes by answering trivia questions during each episode. Visit www.facebook.com/terracycle for more info.
TUNE IN
Garbage Moguls
Saturday, August 21st
Catch the re-airing of the pilot at 7:00pm, followed by three new episodes!
8:00 – “Pet Project”
http://bit.ly/99pYEl
Pedigree has challenged the TerraCycle team to create an entire line of pet products made from dog food bags in just two weeks. From leashes and collars to doggie rain hats and octopus toys, the team crashes on developing, creating, testing and then pitching the goods.
9:00 – “Fishy Business”
http://bit.ly/atENqu
The TerraCycle team develops the “Garbage Garbage Can” ― a garbage can made from chip wrappers that is less expensive and just as strong as commercial plastic cans ― they pitch to Home Depot. Additionally, they design, create and use fishing lures made from old CDs, then test their product on the open seas.
10:00 – “All-Nighter”
http://bit.ly/awTQfY
Multitasking at its finest — the TerraCycle team renovates, designs, stocks and opens a storefront for business … in one night! Back at the office, there’s no rest for the weary, as Tom tasks his crew to create an entire line of products, including a suit jacket, made from Target plastic bags!
Looks very interesting. Has anyone else heard about this? Hopefully, I’ll be able to catch it online, as we don’t have cable.
Time Out
Posted on | August 4, 2010 | 8 Comments
I guess I’m taking a break for a bit. I didn’t mean to, but it’s just happening that way. There are a lot of transitions going on over here, and I feel more and more called to enforce limits on my time spent social networking. I have no plans of giving up on blogging – I’m more focused on spending less time on Facebook! 
But blogging is getting set aside, too, while I try to find more time to spend outside in the warmth, in the garden, or time with the family, as we prepare for the arrival of my sister’s third baby (about three weeks from now).
Dragonfly in my garden
So again, be assured that while I am not blogging much myself, I am reading all my favorite blogs still (though I rarely stop to comment – please forgive me!). I will be back soon (hopefully refreshed and full of new topics) to get this blog back up and rolling. I love the excitement in the blogosphere during fall, when everyone is sharing their recipes and garden photos and canning tips and the like. I am looking forward to that. And I am hoping to fix up the blog a little, as well. Clean up the sidebars, delete some out-of-date material, and reorganize the category list which is just a mess.
So yes, I will be back, and I hope you will still want to come visit A Green Spell when I return from my blogging vacation! I hope you are all enjoying the summer as we start transitioning into the harvest season (my favorite time of year). Blessings to you all.
Stasis
Posted on | July 21, 2010 | 20 Comments
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I am pulling back from the computer whenever possible in an attempt to spend more time in the “real world.” I still enjoy my time here, and am keeping up with all my favorite blogs (though admittedly, I don’t comment much these days) but I find myself busy with work in the garden, making things for Five Seed and just generally being out and about. (Well, as out and about as a hermit like me can get!)
Lately, I find myself in a place of stasis. This is a little odd to me, as stasis doesn’t seem to be something one should experience during the riotous month of July. Things are supposed to be growing and the sun is supposed to be burning and life is supposed to be bursting out from every corner. And yet, not so much here.
My garden has been a bit of a disappointment for me. I spent months and a lot of money planning, preparing the seedlings, keeping the seedlings from dying during the completely bizarre, freezing weather we experienced all through the month of June. It makes sense that my garden is about a month and a half behind most people’s in the country who WEREN’T experiencing frosts throughout June. But I’m sorry to report that I lost 85% of my seedlings (even some recently), and that of the few that survived, many simply grew to the size of my fist – and stayed there. My beans and broccoli have just sat in the garden bed at the same size for a month. I have planted new beans, just hoping to get a handful of beans by the end of the season, but none have come up.
My garden bed. Thriving: spinach and one zucchini plant. Surviving: green onions, broccoli, cucumbers, beets. Dead: lettuce, beans, parsley, okra, parsnips, rutabaga, and more...
The lawn also depresses the heck out of me. I just hate lawns, and now that it’s our first summer in this house, I’ve found that we have to water far more than I’d prefer just to keep the grass semi-alive in the hue of yellow-brownish-green. Some of the lawn has simply died due to the lack of shade and placement of the fence that bounces light and heat onto the lawn, frying it to its roots. I have asked the owners if they would consider letting us deduct $25 from our rent if we go out and buy a $25 fruit tree and plant it in the backyard. I’m desperate for the tree for some reason – our yard is so plain and ugly. Unfortunately, I have not yet heard back from them and am getting quite impatient.
My tomatoes which obviously won't be offering any fruit this year. You can see some of the scorched grass, though it looks better in this early morning light.
My sunflowers that died three days after I bought them.
As for the rest… Business is SUPER slow – this has been the slowest month since I started in January. I’m also finding that people just aren’t “there” lately, online (if that makes any sense). I have so many emails I’ve sent out that have not yet been answered. It seems like the whole world is on vacation, lol! And my water kefir adventures (more on that later) are super slow, too. I’m in a Facebook group called I Love Water Kefir, and it’s so funny – I’m the Slow Grains Girl. My kefir takes five days to fully ferment, while others take 2-3 days. Stasis, stasis, stasis.
Then there will be the weird, sudden “gush” of something new. In an effort to get out and socialize more, I have started attending a local knitting group here in town with my sister. The first two were really awkward – I basically sat there knitting, listening to everyone talk and hoping no one would notice me. But the last meeting was wonderful. It was a smaller group and I got the chance to talk with people and get to know them a bit more. I was extremely excited as one of the members, who is a spinner, let me and my sister try spinning! Jill (my sis) and I have wanted to spin our own yarn for years. After that experience, we were both thinking of how we could finance the purchase of a spinning wheel. So far, we haven’t come up with any good ideas! However, the experience was amazing and was like a burst of new energy in my life.
So there it is. My garden is oddly stunted with little plants shooting out here and there. I just can’t figure it out at all but I can’t fight the energy. Sometimes, you just have to go with the flow. Even when the flow ain’t flowing!
June 2010: Month in Review
Posted on | July 2, 2010 | 11 Comments
Inspired by (and copied from) Mon at Holistic Mama.
A thought…
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
A sound…
Birds
A taste…
An image…
Getting the garden started.
A scent…
The stinky worm bin!
A word…
COLD
A touch…
Grainy, moist dirt
A gift for me…
Eating whatever I like
A post (or three) you may have missed…
My guest post at Family Sanity Reviews (Getting Down and Dirty)
My most popular post at Five Seed, Our Fears About Real Food
On the needles…
Provence Marl Empire Waist Cardigan
Read…
More Sookie Stackhouse novels, and Plenty (fantastic)
…and reading…
Definitely Dead & Your Money or Your Life
Relationships, Food & Community, Chapter 4: Feast and Waste
Posted on | June 28, 2010 | 10 Comments
The final chapter of Relationships, Food & Community:
So back up again, to before I bought the honey… During the bee lecture, I had noticed several people sneaking off to grab plates of food. B and I were happy to wait until the end of lecture to grab ours and we made our way through the crowd to the buffet table.
I had just brought a green salad and was ashamed of my lack of creativity when we saw the food! There were cobblers of every kind, fresh whipped cream, dozens of cold salads made from quinoa, beans, noodles, and more. Barbequed chicken (which I didn’t eat, of course), cookies, butters, casseroles, and fresh, homemade bread. There was a bread there that I cannot describe. It is something I’ve eaten before – the kind of bread your grandmother probably made. White bread, but yeasty and sweet and braided. Do you know the kind? In any case, B and I had two huge pieces of it, slathered with butter and would’ve had more if it hadn’t been gone when we came back for seconds. Needless to say, it has inspired me to get serious about trying my hand at bread making. (Again.)
So seconds for us consisted of two huge plates of dessert foods! As you can see from my plate, I got a walnut chocolate chip cookie, strawberry rhubarb cake, rhubarb cobbler with whipped cream, strawberry cobbler, and…the piece de resistance, two varieties of homemade honey ice cream – full fat, made with cream and egg yolks! Yum! The one on the left is a blend with cardamom that was very light and full of ice crystals – so good. The one on the right was made with an ingredient I don’t remember (I’d never heard of it before). But it tasted a bit like Daiquiri Ice from Baskin Robbins. So yes, we could barely keep the zippers on our pants from busting after that meal!
The one downside to this event was, of course, the waste. The words potluck and picnic are usually synonymous with “disposable dishware,” or, “too much trash.” As you can see, I made a good effort to come prepared. I had my Klean Kanteen, my To-Go Ware bamboo utensils, and a stack of cloth napkins. Unfortunately, I couldn’t think of anything to replace paper plates. My tiffin would’ve been too cumbersome with all its pieces to carry through a crowded, fast-moving buffet line. Any thoughts on that one?
It was a really interesting thing to witness. It’s obviously a small place of disconnection. Here we were at an event planned by Central Oregon Slow Food, hoested by a CSA farmer, headlined by an organic beekeeper, an event that was all about sustainability, community, and environmental responsibility…and we ended up filling at least two trash cans with disposable dishware. I wondered if people were troubled by that or not. Did it cross their minds? Did they just go with the flow because we still aren’t at a point where “no waste” is the default thought process?
This event definitely inspired me, though. For one thing, I’m interested in getting more involved with Central Oregon Slow Food, if I can find the time. I don’t know how far I’ll get with that because most organizations tend to focus on Bend events, which is 15ish miles from me. But I’m going to look into it.
Secondly, I am considering volunteering for the next CSA event. I know Sarahlee would be open to me trying to “de-waste” future events. The problem is, I have no idea how to do it and about a month to figure it out. Any thoughts? It can’t be something that costs money, or requires people to do more or bring their own. If it isn’t easy and cheap – effortless for them, really – then let’s face: it won’t happen. People will be worrying about what to bring to the event, and won’t want to worry about bringing plates and cups and silverware. Further, it has to be child-friendly.
As far as extra time goes, I don’t mind putting it in. Gathering items, washing them, etc. I just need ideas on what I could use for this without going out and spending hundreds of dollars on metal cups and dishes! I would love to hear your thoughts on this. I need ideas.
So there it is. The simple act of signing up for a CSA box has forced me to come out of the cave in a way I never would have imagined. There are aspects of it that are really exciting and wonderful. Though, admittedly, there are aspects of it that are unlike most CSAs (I think), and there are things I am asked to do that I don’t think are my responsibility – so there’s always the good with the bad.
More than anything, though, it keeps pulling me into my life, as odd as that sounds. Honey from my region that tastes the way the air smells. Produce grown and harvested from the soil that surrounds me. Connecting with people I may not have ever met otherwise. This is my life and this is my place right here and now. And it is endlessly more fascinating than I ever realized.
Tags: agriculture > community > CSA > farming > Food > slow food
Capricorn Full Moon: June 26, 2010
Posted on | June 26, 2010 | 3 Comments
(The final installment of the Relationships, Food & Community will be published on Monday.)
Full moon in Capricorn, 4:30 a.m. PDT (sun in Cancer)
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Themes: Home, manifestation, light, energy, family, effort.
Moon/Sun elements: Earth/Water
Full moon nicknames: Strawberry Moon, Honey Moon, Moon of Life, Strong Sun Moon, Mead Moon, Rose Moon, Green Corn Moon
Herbal allies: comfrey, purslane, patchouly/patchouli, moonwort, eucalyptus
Fun fact about June:
~Some say June was named for Juno, wife of Jupiter and goddess of love and marriage. This corresponds beautifully with the sun’s shift into Cancer, and its focus on family, home, and domestic issues.
Check out Bohemian Shadows for more info on this moon.
Relationships, Food & Community, Chapter 3: Bees, Hives, and Local Honey
Posted on | June 25, 2010 | 10 Comments
Back to the Rainshadow Organics farm, where B and I were awkwardly standing at the edge of the crowd (which is typical for us). Sarahlee approached us and asked if we would set up the chairs around the lawn to prepare for the bee lecture. We happily did so and then plopped ourselves down on a little bench.
The gentleman who gave the lecture was Steve Harris from Windy Acres Dairy. He talked about the ancient Egyptians beekeeping practices and that honey had been found in 2,000 year old tombs – and it was still edible. He brought a beehive with him to show us how they work. It was the kind many beekeepers use – the stackable white boxes with frames inside.
Most people apparently start with one box then move on to a second, stacked on top. He said the queen only moves from bottom to top, never from top to bottom, so when she moves up to the second level to lay eggs, the others will follow, leaving the bottom box empty. The remedy, if you want to keep your bees going? Move the top box to the bottom and the bottom to the top – when they are ready, the queen will move to the top again, thus keeping the system going.
He told us how beekeepers make the hives – most still use the same system they’ve been using for 150 years. But honestly, it was hard for me to visualize what he was saying – sometimes, I need a hands-on demonstration!
The only “bad” part of the lecture (bad for the bees, that is) was that he had brought one of his hives that had recently collapsed because of our frigid weather. From what I’ve heard, this is the coldest spring we’ve had in 20 years, and because of the temperatures, the moisture in the hive could not be evaporated quickly enough, and all the bees froze in place. They showed us the little critters, frozen in time in their little honeycombs and it was very upsetting to think of a hive collapsing from the weather when bees everywhere are already being threatened.
However, on a brighter note, Harris had brought four quart jars (3.9 pounds) of raw, organic honey from Prineville (about 25 miles east of my town). The price? A mere $17! I’ve seen local, organic, raw honey going for $13 per pound – or more, so I considered this quite the bargain!
After the potluck (which I’ll describe in the next post), I squashed my inner Hermit and walked right up to Harris and the people he was with, and asked if I could buy a jar. When we got home, I made some chamomile and catnip tea and tried the honey.
My first observation was that the honey is really hard, almost like gooey, crystallized sugar. I don’t know if during hotter days (if we get them) it will be thin enough to pour, but I kinda doubt it. It melts in tea, and blends in smoothies, though so I don’t mind its lack of gooeyness. Further, it is also inconsistent in appearance, being raw.
And the taste? I can’t believe how sweet it is. So concentrated. Yet not overpowering. It doesn’t taste anything like the cheap honey I buy at the store. It is sweeter, and there were dozens of different flavors that I couldn’t distinguish.
There was some sense that I had after my third sample – a familiar flavor that I just couldn’t put my finger on. Then I realized it tastes the way it smells outside. When I go out into the yard or bike around town, there is a familiar scent in this area. Every region, I think has its own distinctive scent. I remember being hit by that realization last year when B and I arrived in France. There was no place that we visited that smelled like America to me. It was filled with beautiful scents, but it was so jarringly unfamiliar that those first few days made me very homesick!
So here I have this honey that tastes like Central Oregon’s air. If I could taste the way the air smells here, it would taste like this honey. I guess that makes sense, since the bees are making that honey from the pollen they’ve gathered from the plants that live here. But to really experience that taste and that realization is pretty amazing.
Next up: Potluck gluttony and a fight against disposable dishware.
Tags: agriculture > community > CSA > farmers market > farming > local > local foods > locavore
Natural Allergy Relief: The Healing Power of Local Honey
Posted on | June 24, 2010 | 8 Comments
Please excuse this brief interruption to the series Relationships, Community & Food, which will return with its third installment tomorrow.
Central Oregon Locavore
Since I’ve been on a “local food” kick for a while now, I was delighted to recently acquire some raw, organic, local honey (which I will discuss in the next “chapter” of the Relationships, Community & Food posts). This is the very first time I’ve tried local honey. I was excited, not just because it hasn’t traveled far to get to me, but also because I’ve read for years that local honey can help ease allergies.
Local honey contains local pollens – the pollens that are irritating you right now – and exposing your body to those pollens is believed to help desensitize your body. In other words, it’s like a natural version of allergy shots.
There aren’t a whole lot of studies proving that this is 100% effective for everyone. Treating yourself with local honey is much like drinking kombucha. You have to judge for yourself whether or not you feel it is beneficial. Personally, I’m still experimenting with it.
You can also use bee pollen for allergies, though I have never tried this, and therefore, I’ll leave it to you readers to research that and find out if it would be right for you.
If you decide to try local honey for your allergies, please do your research first, and proceed with caution. I have read that some people have had a reaction to honey – an allergen overload, so to speak. You definitely want to be careful with this method, and contact your physician, health care provider, or naturopath before proceeding. I have read that you should start out with just 1/2 tsp. of local honey to be sure that you don’t have an adverse reaction, and proceed from there. And please do not try this method with your children without first consulting a professional to make sure it is safe for them.
If you live in Central Oregon, you can look for honey from Windy Acres Farm. The website says the honey is from Salem, but the quart I bought was from Prineville, so be sure to ask. For U.S. residents, you can also try Honey Locator. Farmer’s markets are also a fabulous place to get local honey.
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