It's been quite a week; earthquake and hurricane alike in a region not known for either phenomenon.  The earthquake was at least as pal...

For a variety of reasons, I planted a lot of catnip this spring.  It's a useful and mild medicinal, reportedly good at repelling flea b...

I never posted about the source of the main course of this harvest meal.  It was a runty broiler that my farming friend gave me when it was...

I had a minor freak out yesterday when, for a lark, I did a rough estimate of the energy costs of pressure canning.  On a recheck of my calc...

  A minor frustration in growing cilantro is the plant's notorious haste in going to seed.  I deal with this by planting cilantro seed ...

So we've had our three fig trees in large containers for a year and change now.  I wanted to wait this long to post an update on them s...