Category: Environment

After the Rain

After the Rain

| March 3, 2014 | 2 Replies

After the rain, the Late Bloomer Garden comes alive! You may have heard about the drought in California. Well, we got a proper hosing the past few days. It coincided with cool season crops mature and lush. My new rainwater barrel is full along with several overflow trash cans, and the soil got a deep […]

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Variety is the Spice of Life

Variety is the Spice of Life

| October 18, 2013 | 22 Replies

“Variety is the spice of life.” Ever heard that phrase? Of course, you have. I’ve heard it all my life. Well, guess what? There is NO variety in industrial agriculture, which is not sustainable. Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. William Cowper – The Task (1785)–‘The Timepiece’ (Book II, lines 606-7) […]

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Late Bloomer – National Heirloom Expo 2013 – Episode 36

Late Bloomer – National Heirloom Expo 2013 – Episode 36

| October 11, 2013 | 4 Replies

Late Bloomer – National Heirloom Expo 2013 – Episode 2.16 covers just a taste of this year’s three-day event in Santa Rosa, California. There were hundreds of food and seed producers and exhibitors, and thousands of participants enjoyed a wide range of foods, heirloom seeds and products, as well as live music. Kaye visited for […]

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Seed Freedom Fest to Make Los Angeles a “GMO-Free Zone”

Seed Freedom Fest to Make Los Angeles a “GMO-Free Zone”

| August 19, 2013 | 2 Replies

Seed Freedom Fest to make Los Angeles a “GMO-Free Zone” brought together seed savers, seed lovers, live music and theatre, silkscreening, hand-crafted local foods, and local politicians at the Venice Learning Garden, Saturday, August 17. “Seed Freedom LA is working with LA City Hall to have L.A. declared a“GMO-Free Zone” to protect homegrown food in our home gardens, school […]

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Mennonites living a meaningful life in Tennessee & the availability of fresh produce & dairy

Mennonites living a meaningful life in Tennessee & the availability of fresh produce & dairy

| July 17, 2013 | 8 Replies

Mennonites living a meaningful life in Middle Tennessee & the availability of fresh produce & dairy – I checked my thesaurus for the word meaningful and found these adjectives: significant, relevant, important, consequential, valid, worthwhile, sincere, deep, serious, in earnest, expressive, and eloquent. I found, on my recent trip to Tennessee, every one of these descriptions to be true. First, a […]

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Meeting a Fellow Blogger is a Bit Unreal

Meeting a Fellow Blogger is a Bit Unreal

| May 30, 2013 | 10 Replies

Meeting a fellow blogger is a bit unreal, and, it’s also very natural. Amy at Confessions of a Natural Momma and I have been following one another’s blogs for over a year. Even though I am decades older, we found common ground in our beliefs and ideals, and I frankly think she is quite remarkable. She […]

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I Won’t Be Silent! Chemtrails!

I Won’t Be Silent! Chemtrails!

| November 29, 2012 | 10 Replies

Today, I listened to Doreen Virtue on Hay House Radio online. She said that chemtrails, or geo-engineering, the manipulation of the Earth’s atmosphere by spraying heavy metals into it from jet planes (then those particles fall to Earth), GMO’s (genetically modified organisms), fracking (forcing chemicals deep in the ground to extract natural gas) and fluoridation (forcing the […]

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Challenges of Working Towards an Environmentally Literate Society

Challenges of Working Towards an Environmentally Literate Society

| October 22, 2012 | 1 Reply

Excellent, well-documented, thought-provoking piece from Green Momma Adventure. Highly recommended! – Kaye

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Hogwash in Michigan!

Hogwash in Michigan!

| October 14, 2012 | 18 Replies

Not all of my blog followers make it to Late Bloomer Facebook page, and because I feel so strongly about food security and family farmers, and I know some of you are raising pigs and chickens and other animals, I am passing along this video of pig farmer Mark Baker, fighting the new ISO pig […]

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Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South Bronx | Video on TED.com

Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South Bronx | Video on TED.com

| August 1, 2012 | 2 Replies

This is amazing inspiring. Please read and watch Stephen Ritz on TED.com.

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