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"Will be out of state that day. I'll make a local event soon."
"Sounds great but won't be in Harlingen."
Slow Food: A Commitment to Food, Community & Environment at House and Earth
February 16, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm
Learn about the connection between your food and your home planet. Hear about local farmers and other area food purveyors. Rediscover the true pleasure of eating real food. Slow food is about slowing down, eating food of higher quality, food that has been allowed time to grow, ripen and enliven as Nature intended, rather than being pushed by chemicals and human greed to be ready in double-quick time. Slow food places higher emphasis on local food which has travelled minimal miles to get to your…See More
Mulch Party 2k10 at Near Burnet and 2222
August 21, 2010 from 8am to 3pm
Save the Date!!!Urban Patchwork is Growing!Saturday, August 21, 2010Come one, come all!!!We'll be adding four new farms to our neighborhood, we're making Urban Patchwork grow, and you can help! Please come out and share the fun. Learn deep mulch farming and find out what fall vegetables you can grow while you help us plant potatoes and spread mulch. It will be a fun time spent with friends and farmers.Come learn about deep mulch farming and other urban farming techniques. The fall vegetable…See More
"Sounds good...remind me."
"Thanks, will look forward to it."
"Sorry, wanted to come but had a busy day and couldn't get it together to prepare anything. Would like to see Tom's garden again."
FOOGS Community Potluck Roundtable! at Whole Life Gardens (Tom's House)
June 16, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm
Please join the FOOGS.org team for a community potluck event. Bring your ideas, enthusiasm and a dish with some delicious homegrown or farmers market produce. We want to share our vision face to face and get your feedback.If you have information that you would like to share with the others, please bring it!See More
"I had a great time. So glad I went."
"If I can finish work in time, I'll come."
Permaculture Graduation & Potluck - Barr Mansionish at Barr Mansion
May 11, 2010 from 6:30pm to 10:30pm
Hello All! Join us for a local food potluck & permaculture graduation at the Barr Mansion. We are celebrating local growers, Citizen Gardener and Permaculture Design Graduates (ME!!!) YAY!Bring a dish that will serve 6-8 people made with locally grown ingredients! There is no other event fee, but there is a suggested donation of $5.00See More
Austin Green Living Expo - Get Ready. Get Set. Go Green! at Austin Convention Center
April 23, 2010 to April 25, 2010
Celebrate Earth Day with FOOGS.org, Citizen Gardener and the Permaculture Guild by attending Austin's only all encompassing green lifestyle showcase and discover sustainable solutions for everyday actions in how we live, build, grow, fuel, move, eat, work, play, learn and breathe.Learn how easy it is to incorporate Green Living into your life. There is no one right answer, and every action you make helps make this a better world. Find the solutions that best fit your lifestyle and learn new…See More
"I'm going to try to post a picture here. It really was a disaster this time. I would like to save what can be saved, especially the kumatos from Australia, which we started later and seem healthier. But they have a yellowing/burned look on some…"
"Sounds like you nailed it with the temperature diagnosis. Let us know how it goes! :)"
"Many have died entirely. They seemed to have trouble getting past the cotyledons. When they did have them, they remained tiny and shriveled. The same is true of most varieties. Did not use a nitrogen spray, but used liquid seaweed, The only real…"
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- What would you like to get out of FOOGS?
- Network with others
- What is your level of experience with backyard gardening?
- Been gardening for YEARS
- If you currently grow anything, what do you like to grow?
- Everything possible
- How did you hear about FOOGS? (If referred by someone, please say who)
- Elliot Jackson
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Sick Seedlings
Posted on March 6, 2010 at 10:05pm 6 Comments 0 Likes
Like last year, my roommate and I bought a variety of heirloom tomato seeds and successfully sprouted most of them about 7 weeks ago. A lot of effort was put into giving them adequate light. Most were under grow light fluorescents just a few inches above them and some were under an incandescent grow light.
We tried to gradually introduce them to the sun outside, but it's been too cold for the most of the time. I understand it needs to be above 65 degrees at the sprout…
Continue Rescued Plant Update
Posted on January 22, 2010 at 9:35am 2 Comments 0 Likes
This is just a further update in my roommate's and my experiment with carrying vegetable plants over to the next year, particularly tomatoes.
Last night we ate a very good black krim tomato (with more on the way) from one of the plants we dug up just before the first freeze. Most of the rest are doing well and tomatoes are ripening, although only potted Brandywine plants that were never transplanted are producing new berries. A couple of varieties, particularly the Romas, were dry… Continue
Last night we ate a very good black krim tomato (with more on the way) from one of the plants we dug up just before the first freeze. Most of the rest are doing well and tomatoes are ripening, although only potted Brandywine plants that were never transplanted are producing new berries. A couple of varieties, particularly the Romas, were dry… Continue
Gardening in Winter
Posted on January 7, 2010 at 10:47am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I am learning a lot about winter gardens in Austin, and freeze-resistant plants like swiss chard, collards, broccoli and many others, that actually seem to thrive in the winter here. Elsewhere I posted a picture of a bowl of swiss chard picked yesterday.
2009's tomato plants, dug up and transferred to pots, have survived, and a couple of the Brandywine plants have even produced new tomatoes. So far though, the winter tomatoes, partially ripened indoors, are not as flavorful. I think… Continue
2009's tomato plants, dug up and transferred to pots, have survived, and a couple of the Brandywine plants have even produced new tomatoes. So far though, the winter tomatoes, partially ripened indoors, are not as flavorful. I think… Continue
Defying the Freeze
Posted on December 5, 2009 at 9:16am 4 Comments 0 Likes
There was plenty of warning from the weather service this time of a significant freeze last night. With heirloom tomato plants finally producing numerous green tomatoes after being nursed through a brutal summer, my roommate and I weren't about to lose them suddenly one night to an early frost.
What to do was the question. We called someone at The Natural Gardner who suggested covering them with a material that would keep them seven degrees above the air temperature. But there could… Continue
What to do was the question. We called someone at The Natural Gardner who suggested covering them with a material that would keep them seven degrees above the air temperature. But there could… Continue
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- At 9:57am on November 19, 2009,
Rachel Butler said…
- welcome!
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