A nice bit about how gardening can be therapeutic.

When you get up in the morning to have your coffee, you will go outside and check all your plants in turn, and gradually you’ll begin to get a feel for the minute details that indicate that the plant needs more water, needs more shade, or what stage it’s at in terms of fruition, all like some kind of biological twitter feed. This will be immensely satisfying for you. 

I plan to have a lemon tree in my house, and this is the guide I’ll follow.

I’ve been thinking about honest food a lot lately. One way to eat honest food that I’ve been reading about is foraging, meaning to wander in search of food or provisions. Recently, Yale hired its very own forager and I’ve bookmarked a Seattle forager who supplies food to restaurants.

All that is interesting and whatnot, but I want to know what I can do to forage my own food. The most obvious food to look for in my mind is mushrooms or fungi. And, it just so happens there’s a Mycological Association in every state. I think I may sign up and start foraging shrooms.

Add The Greenhorns to the growing list of food documentaries I’m planning to see.