jeremy mandle writes here. » garden http://www.mandle.org/wordpress i like you Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:58:12 +0000 en hourly 1 The Garden: Late Summer Thinning, Insights, Mission http://www.mandle.org/wordpress/2009/08/31/the-garden-late-summer-thinning-insights-mission/ http://www.mandle.org/wordpress/2009/08/31/the-garden-late-summer-thinning-insights-mission/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:55:35 +0000 Jeremy http://www.mandle.org/wordpress/2009/08/31/the-garden-late-summer-thinning-insights-mission/

We’ve thinned out most of the summer crops to start preparing for Fall planting. The bunnies are all grown up and have left the carrot patch. I spied one of them wearing a little blue jacket and a sack of wee carrots sprinting across the yard yesterday. Onions, Scallions, Asparagus, Cabbage, Romaine… and more are on the planting list! We have 2 watermelons developing nicely and will serve as great refreshments next weekend.

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[INSIGHTS]
Last night my good friend Scott Kinnebrew http://truthandsalvageco.blogspot.com/ referred to our garden as a “Victory Garden”. At first I didn’t know what he meant, but a quick explanation by him helped me realize that the “Victory Garden” as a response to food shortages during WWII is the style garden we’ve established. Let’s revive the “Victory Garden”!
http://www.revivevictorygarden.org/
[MISSION]
Our reasons for building and tending this garden are both financial and lifestyle in nature. Working our little garden as a family has been a tremendous morale booster! Rooted in the desire to reconnect with our origins and as tenants, not lords over the earth we have created a space for our family to use the land in a respectfully productive manner.
[THE FUTURE]
I hope that our daughter’s memories of working in this garden grow to become some of her fondest and most lasting. They will stay with Mary & I forever.

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