Posts under ‘Victory Garden’

I’ve been playing fast and loose with Christmas this year, acting as if it wasn’t actually coming, that the goose wasn’t actually getting fat, and that the old man did not, indeed, have his hat out for a penny.
And so, this means that, a week before the holiday, I have just now gotten around to [...]

After Slow Food Nation, I stopped volunteering at the Victory Garden. Even though the organization decided to keep the garden open through November—I assume, in response to the intense pressure from visitors who asked, every time I was there, why it would be coming down right after the food festival—I had not been expecting it [...]

“Is that plastic?” asked the kid. He was visiting the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden with his parents, and peering at the lettuce bed.
It should be noted that the lettuce bed in the Victory Garden is like no lettuce bed that I, or you, will ever grow. Perfectly aligned lettuce in complementary colors, all manner [...]

It’s been approaching, slowly.
Kurt Michael Friese, author of A Cook’s Journey: Slow Food In The Heartland, has been riding the train across the Plains and the Rockies, taking a paced route toward San Francisco. The vegetables and herbs in the Victory Garden have been stretching toward the sunlight – when sunlight pierces the fog, that [...]

The bright flashes of red on the sunflower leaves caught my eye as I passed by the bed. First one, then two, then it was as if my eye had calibrated to pick them up, and the ladybugs were everywhere, scattered amidst the leaves like water droplets.
Ladybugs and I have a troubled history: I used [...]

Yes, folks, if you are of the ilk that likes puppet shows, fun carnival games and other interactive experiences, but are also of the ilk that does not like to pay for said shows/games/experiences, do I have an activity for you.
On Saturday, August 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Victory Garden, there [...]

While Lauren and I were locked deep in conversation with a Victory Garden visitor (Well, let me be honest about this…said visitor was expounding on the lack of grocery stores in the Tenderloin and the state of Grocery Nation in San Francisco, and Lauren and I were more trapped than locked deep…), I noticed a [...]

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Bed 10A. That’s the location, on the official Victory Garden Map, of the tomato plants. During my first morning as a volunteer, I kept wandering over there, checking out the tiny yellow blossoms, eyeing the green tomatoes weighing down the branches, and admiring the basil and Italian parsley companion-planted throughout the bed.
Then I noticed suckers [...]

I very nearly left the house without a jacket on Sunday morning.
Two hours into my first stint as a docent in the Victory Garden, I was simultaneously applauding my decision to actually grab my favorite grey hoodie and kicking myself for not grabbing my fleece jacket to go over it.
“I’m freezing,” I muttered to Lauren, [...]