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When I started this blog, I was already pretty intolerant of the bad tomato. But since then? This intolerance has reached epic proportions. Unless it’s really tomato season where I live, that particular fruit is dead to me. But I have a bowl of heirlooms on my kitchen counter right now, because it’s July, and [...]

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is spending 2011 doing exactly what I think everyone should do: He’s eating more thoughtfully, more sustainably, and more ethically. In 2011, he’s eating only meat that he kills. Though I’m certainly happy to take advantage of his product, I have to admit: I could care less what Mark Zuckerberg takes on [...]

So, apparently a fairly high percentage of you gardeners out there got into the habit of growing things as a kid. So says the results of a recently-released Garden-Share survey, which found 37.7 percent of their members started gardening by the age of 10. The results don’t surprise me, really. After all, the sample set [...]

Some might call me a has-been blogger…it is true that I’ve been a woefully inadequate updater of these pages. But something has spurred me on today to post. Because, good people of the Internet, it is time I alert you to this Very Important News: Tomorrow, May 14, is World Naked Gardening Day. Stop blinking [...]

It has been an awfully long time — nearly five months — since I showed up here at The Inadvertent Gardener. It’s been something of a crazy ride — a new relationship, a move, a book project that got underway and then stagnated again, and a whole mess of other stuff — but it’s time [...]

Though I realize it’s probably a bit disingenuous, at this point, to act like I know absolutely nothing about gardening. But five things? That means I’ve learned more than one thing per year. Or something like that. Regardless, today I’d like to invite you to step over to Heather Mak’s Five Takeaways blog, where I [...]

I’m a couple of days behind in making the announcement, but thanks to everyone who entered the 4th Anniversary drawing for a copy of my friend Tara’s book The Butcher & The Vegetarian: One Woman’s Romp Through A World of Men, Meat and Moral Crisis. The winner is Janet of Pretty Green Girl, who I [...]

Remember those wine half-barrels I picked up in February? I happen to know that my source has them available again at the low, low price of $20 per half-barrel and $40 per full barrel. Interested? Send me an email to genie <at> theinadvertentgardener <dot> com and I’ll pass along your information to the barrel dealer.

On a blustery Thanksgiving morning, six months after I moved to Oakland, I took my parents to celebrate Mass. They were visiting me for the first time in this new city I called home, and I wanted to show them the newly-dedicated Cathedral of Christ the Light, which I’d been attending since its dedication Mass [...]

Giant. Freaking. Rabbits. (Thanks to Deb Roby for pointing this one out to me.)