Monthly Archives: September 2009

Insight from Barbara Crafton

Posted on 16 September 2009 | Leave a comment

A thoughtful piece from Barbara Crafton's Almost Daily eMo

Use your words

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Garden update – Sept 2009

Posted on 13 September 2009 | Leave a comment

This has been a challenging year – late freeze, hail storm, then two months of 100 degree weather and 2 year drought.  The Garden did well considering all that.  Here are the photos from this morning.

Cynthia’s Garden

I’ll post more in a couple of weeks – I managed to plant lettuces, peas and beans this weekend and will get some more wintery things planted as soon as the seeds arrive.

Mr. Lolly is looking particularly good in the garden.

Cynthia

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Now,

Posted on 7 September 2009 | 1 Comment

These look like croissants.
I bet it's because I played Carla Bruni's Comme si de rien n'etait while I rolled out the dough.

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Fingers crossed!

Cynthia

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Cynthia McKenna – making Croissants from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking

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Mark Bittman – Eat Real Food

Posted on 5 September 2009 | 1 Comment

A friend sent this to me, and it is worth watching.  Mark Bittman talks about how our food has become industrialized.  Its a good reminder to eat local as much as possible.

 

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Cynthia

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White House Garden – Update

Posted on 3 September 2009 | 2 Comments

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/10032373001?isVid=1&publisherID=1612833736

Great video about the White House Garden. I love seeing gardens make a difference.  I was pretty interested in this project when it started and I am glad to see the process and some of the harvest.  The White House Garden is an organic garden, and a teaching garden – hard to ask for more than that.

I'm going to start my fall garden this weekend – about a month late thanks to our 100 degree temperatures.  We should still be able to get some beans and lettuces since they grow so fast.  I'll probably buy broccoli plants though, and who knows what else.  First I need to make some space…

Cynthia

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