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Happiness Is . . . by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Happiness is . . . checking the mail and harvesting carrots! If you think you have nowhere to have a garden, take a look around your mailbox. It's often a good, sun ... Read on »

"Blessed and Released" by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I had been worried. I'm leaving the food pantry garden August 1 as it is time. It has been three years ( here's a fun post about how it started ) and I know that ... Read on »

Happy Bike to School Day, Unless This Happens UPDATED! by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Photo taken this week Today is National Bike to School Day. Of course, let's hope you don't live in a city where kids face this every single day some ... Read on »

Be Sure to Eat Your Leafy Green by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living My gosh, mustard leaves can get huge! (Too bad no one in my house likes them--they'll get donated today.) For perspective, here is the uncropped shot, showing ... Read on »

And Then There's the Guy From Bonny Doon . . . by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I'm doing my usual Sunday night thing, reading the New York Times and sipping a glass of wine, this time a screw cap one from Bonny Doon Vineyards (or so I th ... Read on »

The First Potatoes of the Season, and Creating a Self-Serve Garden by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Happiness is . . . the first potatoes of the season! They are about two or three weeks later than usual this year, and I've been anxiously awaiting them. Pot ... Read on »

Beware of Sacred Cows by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living sacred cow Fig. something that is regarded by some people with such respect and veneration that they do not like it being criticized by anyone in any way. ( S ... Read on »

Taking Weather's Unpredictability into Your Own Hands by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I've never seen the water so high around my Hand of God Tree, at the river where I like to walk. And this photo was taken before this past weekend's endless rain! O ... Read on »

Once Mr. Stripey Goes In . . . by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living It's my sign to kick back each year, step out of things a bit, and listen more fully to the callings of my soul so I can hear and heed my next steps. It's the day ... Read on »

Introducing Ed Bruske, Farmer! by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I have been busting to tell you this for months now! You know my friend, Ed Bruske, the best journalist in the United States regarding school lunch (and much more) a ... Read on »

The Top 10 Things to Know about Cork (to Be as Fun on a Walk as I Am) by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I'm walking at the river with my friend, trying out my Kigos to determine whether they are Portugal-ready (what does one wear to traipse around a cork oak forest ... Read on »

A "Something's Happening" Out There by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I trotted out to the back field the other day, just to see how fully the land the middle school kids* and I had cultivated last school year has "returned t ... Read on »

Do You Stay, or Do You Leave? Here's What Rebecca Decided by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Rebecca Barria at the Wylde Center (named after Sally Wylde ) Dunwoody Community Garden ("where the sidewalk ends, community grows") ... Read on »

Happiness Is . . . by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Happiness is . . . a friend who lends her loppers, another friend who shows up as a chopper, and a stranger (now a friend) who lets us loose in her yard. The ... Read on »

You Are Necessary to Grow This Effort UPDATED by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living 50 for Good! (50 new food pantry gardens by August 1, 2013) from Pattie Baker on Vimeo . This is what our food pantry garden looked like ... Read on »

"Mint for Good" Just About Gone by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Note to FoodShed Planet readers: I'm letting the domain name Mint for Good expire (you can see it here until May 21, 2013), so I thought I'd capture the info here, ... Read on »

Nature Actually Wants Us to Flower (and the Thrilling Return of "Bathroom as Metaphor") by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So the woman pushing the baby in the stroller walks by often. She seems interested in my garden, especially now, when all my work and waiting from fall and winter e ... Read on »

Singing for Their Lives by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Remember these kids ? Middle school kids. Awkward. Self-conscious. Shy. Well, months have passed, many rehearsals have happened, and they are now exploding across ... Read on »

The Bounty of Bamboo, and Introducing My Rube Goldberg Crop Machine by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living "Come look!" my friend, Page, said when I stopped by to chop more bamboo from her backyard for our "structure projects" at the food pantry garden. And sure enou ... Read on »

"You're a Contradiction, Costco" by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So there I was at Costco to get the strawberries. Yes, I know that non-organic ones are on the just-released 2013 Dirty Dozen list of fruits and vegetables with the ... Read on »

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