city street to gardening district

[digitS']

city street to gardening district - Toronto

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Dearest digitS',

Thank you so much for this link -- it has set me off again sleuthing on a slightly different track............... ........ !!

It is so amazing what can happen when people start speaking to each other,sharing their interests........if we can all do our bit to help the cause the news will gradually spread. I can see it happening already over here in the UK -- things are a-changing......!!

It is people like you, with your years of hands-on knowledge & your humanity who are our national treasures (or I should say international treasures) & should be celebrated. Thank you!


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Good morning

I have come back this morning to add this link to a wonderful blog. It shows that there are people everywhere who care that the best skills & old knowledge survive & who do their best to pass it on.

I know we can't all aford the luxury of attending her cooking courses (but she has to live too) but she does pass on a lot of information within her blogs. There is an increasing amount of free advice out there :

http://katehill.blogspot.com/2009/07/julia-julie-michael-and-me-my-un-review.html

To me (as I am sure digitS' would agree) it is very important to give clues / paths / access to these important skills & knowledge.

*** I'm sure a lot of my lack of fervour at the moment is due to the fact that I am getting older, and I am more often ill (bad flu at the moment) & less able to tackle the heavy tasks I used to take on a few years ago. This winter has been too long for me & I need the stimulus of an early Spring & sunlight.

Edited to add these links:

http://www.cityfarmer.info/category/community-gardens/

http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/02/...man-turned-his-big-city-backyard-into-a-farm/

I realised I was getting a trifle off-point.
So sorry Steve (put it fown to the flu medication)..... !!!


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[HiDelight]

LOLOLOL!!! so funny

sometimes I think I need ritalin when I am online because I will open an post ..follow the link ..then somehow 2 hours later I am down a very strange road of info on this crazy highway!!!



then I wander back


thanks Steve I got off track too a and I am not on medication!

 

[digitS']

I believe I could forgive you most anything, Hattie .

Interesting that the link to a little story about a Canadian city street, prompted you to post an "un-review" of the Julia Child movie by a cook living in France in defense of American cooks. woooh!

Gardening is right within reach of our digits (dare I say ) and yet, it is as "international" as eating.

Interest in gardening can hardly be confined within a garden. Yesterday, I was exploring a tomato variety which is considered an "heirloom" but was developed as a hybrid of 2 varieties more recently than the beginning of your or my adventures on this Earth. I like the name of that tomato, "Glamour" and believe that the vitamin C in a nice, tall glass of tomato juice may be just what you need today, Hattie .

Julia Child has a tomato named for her! When Gary Ibsen asked Julia if he could name one of his un-named heirlooms for her, Julia said that it must be, "tasty."

Contributions to gardening aren't going to just happen. What does that cook call it, "pigs in the kitchen, ducks under glass" - but, an interest in food really helps. We can all start from where we are .

It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~ Herman Melville

Steve

edited to say: Oh, and here we find HiD on this road!!

 

[obsessed]

I love Julia Child. I used to watch her cooking show when I was little with my granny. I love love her.

 

[Lavender2]

city street to gardening district - Toronto

Just BEAUTIFUL! ... seeing things return to the past ... and 'help thy fellow farmer' ... :happy_flower