Food for thought: Each day the planet welcomes 216,000 new people (births minus deaths). To feed them, we ought to be “welcoming” 34,000 new acres of farmable soil into production each day (roughly 40 Central Parks!) when in fact we’re losing farmland due to erosion, desertification, and sprawl. Please put the “farmland” you have some control over (aka your yard, that empty lot you’ve been eyeing in town, your schoolyard) into production this spring by planting a garden or urban farm. It may seem small, but it all adds up!
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Food for thought: Each day the planet welcomes 216,000 new people (births minus deaths). To feed them, we ought to be “welcoming” 34,000 new acres of farmable soil into production each day (roughly 40 Central Parks!) when in fact we’re losing farmland due to erosion, desertification, and sprawl. Please put the “farmland” you have some control over (aka your yard, that empty lot you’ve been eyeing in town, your schoolyard) into production this spring by planting a garden or urban farm. It may seem small, but it all adds up!

If you have a couple minutes, or, better yet, 60 of them, check out John Jeavons’ talk at Google headquarters last week. One stat he shares shines a pretty harsh light on our global food challenge. Each day the planet welcomes 216,000 new people (births minus deaths). To feed them, we ought to also be “welcoming” 34,000 new acres of farmable soil into production each day when in fact we’re losing farmland due to erosion, desertification, and sprawl. Before you hurl yourself onto the nearest compost pile in despair, take heart: kitchen gardens and gardeners are part of the solution! Together, our gardens represent thousands of acres and there are thousands more to be brought into production by reaching out to and helping new folks to join the fun. 

Cool beans: Maine ranks 4th on the locavorism index! 
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Cool beans: Maine ranks 4th on the locavorism index! 

kitchengardeners: Our new site has sprouted!  It features: a new look, logo and URL - new gardener-powered social network built with Drupal 7, open-source technology super-simple registration process: use your facebook account! no ads for Miracle-Gro or anything else you don’t want or need new garden grants program to help gardeners in need new online garden planner open-pollinated by kitchen gardeners like you  Let’s grow the good together!  http://kgi.org/
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kitchengardeners:

Our new site has sprouted! 

It features:

  • a new look, logo and URL - new gardener-powered social network built with Drupal 7, open-source technology
  • super-simple registration process: use your facebook account!
  • no ads for Miracle-Gro or anything else you don’t want or need
  • new garden grants program to help gardeners in need
  • new online garden planner
  • open-pollinated by kitchen gardeners like you 

Let’s grow the good together! 

http://kgi.org/

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The plant says “Y” but I say “why?” 
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The plant says “Y” but I say “why?” 

The shortest, simplest way I know passes right through the kitchen garden! I hope you enjoy these sweet, spring-dug parsnips as much as we did.
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The shortest, simplest way I know passes right through the kitchen garden! I hope you enjoy these sweet, spring-dug parsnips as much as we did.

Source: rogerdoiron.com

A lovely Danish farm garden represented at Old World Wisconsin, the state’s museum of living history. Photo courtesy of “Putting Down Roots.”
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A lovely Danish farm garden represented at Old World Wisconsin, the state’s museum of living history. Photo courtesy of “Putting Down Roots.”

Chefs Kevin Saiyasak and Jeremy Kapper harvest winter greens from the Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House, March 13, 2012. Baby kale and varietals of greens from the garden will be used in the meal served at the State Dinner in honor of Prime Minister David Cameron and Mrs. Samantha Cameron. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Chefs Kevin Saiyasak and Jeremy Kapper harvest winter greens from the Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House, March 13, 2012. Baby kale and varietals of greens from the garden will be used in the meal served at the State Dinner in honor of Prime Minister David Cameron and Mrs. Samantha Cameron. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Source: Flickr / whitehouse

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.
Ambrose Bierce

James Beard semifinalists include four Portland chefs | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

Congrats to Sam Hayward (Fore Street), Melissa Kelly (Primo), and Steve and Michelle Corry (La Petite Jacqueline) on their James Beard Award nominations.