Rouge gallery of tomatoes and a couple of jaune ones too!

Today on my office rooftop garden  at  www.124merton.com there were at least 22 varieties of tomatoes ripening.We have a total of 57  different varieties of heritage tomatoes.  Photos from left to right: Hawaiian Pineapple,…
July 30, 2010

Buzz in in the garden

This morning Dan Goodbaum  www.foodbomb.org came to my garden to interview  me for  a video  he is making about my garden and my gardening philosophy . The bees were at work.
July 29, 2010

Seeds along the Silk Route

 My daughter Ariel  www.interaxon.com  plucked a dill flower from the garden . "Mmm tastes like plov." It wasn't a stretch of her gustatory imagination. Ten years ago, Ariel, Joel and…
July 28, 2010

More on White, Ghost Eggplants

Ghost Eggplants in my Garden These eggplants are beautiful, delicious and prolific. I have planted them in all my gardens this year. When it comes time to eat them, place raw…
July 27, 2010

No one here but us chickens!

no one here but us chickens On the road to Crowe's Landing ,Stoney Lake ,there is a farm wth an arresting sign: a life size soft sculpture of an old…
July 24, 2010
amaretto blueberry ricotta cheesecake and blueberry sorbet ready to be frozen

Mutiny on the Blueberry Bounty

Driving back from The Stratford Festival on Sunday amongst endless grain fields stood a blueberry farm. Of course, I had to stop. The farmer convinced me that I wanted to buy all…
July 21, 2010

Will there be cotton?

Last cold and rainy Summer was not the best time to move from edible gardening to wearable gardening but by September last , the cotton did bloom. It didn't have time…
July 20, 2010

Salon Style Recital

"Joel’s multi-layered music sweeps you away.  He paints rich and mysterious mental landscapes and magically creates awesome sculptural shapes in your mind’s eye that continually transform and mesmerize... This is…
June 24, 2010