Community-based urban survival gardening

Archive for April, 2009

Chioggia Beet and Chervil Salad Recipe

Chervil is a winter-hardy herb that likes to self-seed. It grows on its own in my front yard every spring. The flavor is a cross between parsley and fennel—an anise-like sweetness and potent green taste that create an astonishing alchemy with sweet and earthy beets. I like Chioggia beets in this dish [...]

Planting of Essential Staple Crops / Summer veggies

For those who don’t know, Sunroot Gardens is an urban, bike-based agricultural operation that grows produce and staple crops for people who invest $ and for people who invest land/labor/goods & services. There’s much TALK about “sustainability”, barter economy, growing food-for-survival, etc. Sunroot Gardens is ACTION on these items, seriously, as [...]

50 Gardens (and counting)

Wonderful greetings from Farmer K:
On Saturday eve we held a Farmers’ Convocation. Calliope of Calliope’s Table, Tom of Mall56, Farmer K & Deva of Sunroot Gardens. Among the four of us we have 50 plots around Greater Southeast. Sunroot has 11 $-paying CSA subscribers, with room for 2 more shares (inquire with [...]