was the joyous sight of the froglet who is hanging out near the brassicas. I’ve seen frogs three times this summer on our plot, which gives me hope that maybe they will make a permanent home here and give the slugs a run for their money. I stopped using slugs pellets in the hope ...
For those who aren’t familiar with what exactly a CSA is, let me explain. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. This basically means that you are supporting your farmer of choice to provide you with what is called a ‘share’ aka membership. The farmer rotates what they are able...
called Edo at the mouth of the Sumida River. He settled in Ushigome, taking the name of the district as his own and building a homestead where the temple of Kōshōji now stands in Fukuromachi, just south of Kagurazaka. He, or a descendant, established a shrine nearby, Akagi Jinja, whi...
Before we leave her for now I just want to make it clear that a whole post… no… a whole essay… no…. a whole book could be written about this print and what it stands for. Rarely am I this deeply impressed. Odds and ends On April 17, 1934 Omori Kyoko (1909...
If a plant is having a tough time of it, it stands to reason that it's going to want to hasten it's purpose in life - to reproduce - before it's time's up. Cold-season plants such as those mentioned above plus the likes of radish and spinach simply don't like hot temperatures,...
styles meant we were discovering many delicious dishes. Managed to have 2 lunches and 1 dinner but could have happily visited again if there'd been availability but unfortunately there wasn't. I just wish there was a restaurant like this near me and not just in the middle of the Indian ...
have turned their entire back garden over to cabbages and dahlias – the soil is bare for most of the year – and we see both a snapshot of a family (the heartbreak in the last image when the man stands alone, his wife now gone) but also a completely standard way of living that ...