Ping Tung EggplantsOriginally uploaded by acsavage Mrs. E (aka, my wife) knocks one out of the (photographic) park again. These are Ping Tung eggplants from our garden but what she sees in them and what I see in them are two entirely different things. An artist’s eye is a marvel to behold. Click the photo for a larger version. I’m […]

Well, it’s been a cool, wet summer which is great for some things and not-so-great for others. We’re up to about 35 quarts of canned maters which is behind where we were last year but the cool weather has really slowed the ripening process (maters like HOT weather, for sure.) However, peppers (hot and sweet varieties) seem to be doing […]

Mrs. E and I have been organic gardening together for about seven years and recently moved to a new home with an acre of land about three years ago. We now have a very nice garden, 100% organic, lush and productive. We preserve an amazing amount of food from it and, every week of the year, we eat at least […]

Dang. It’s been a looo-ooong time since I posted. In the past 6 weeks I’ve been to British Columbia three times and to Edmonton, Alberta as well, usually for four days at a crack. That on top of household chores, our enormous garden and, for the first time in way too long, a social life, I haven’t had time to […]

We’ve been biding our time, patiently waiting since mid-February, to plant our garden. In the meantime, we got our seedlings planted and added a raised bed to plant our early cold weather-tolerant crops. With the new bed we now have a total of about 1400 square feet of garden including our herb garden. Here’s our seedlings: We have 60 heirloom […]

We took a break from Obama campaignin’ this past weekend and had a marvelous pepper harvest. Photo by Anne Savage/Revolutionary Views PhotographySome got stuffed and frozen (and eaten :) and the rest got sliced up and frozen. Gotta love a good pepper harvest. I’m just sayin’…