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KGI Newsletter: June 2007
Contents:
Gardening: -Cultivating generosity: share those spare seedlings
Food and Cooking: -Traditional Provencal aioli recipe -Broccoli soup with cheddar croutons
Humor: -The history of gastronomy in 15 seconds
Food for Thought: -UK: Shortchanged at the checkout
KGI News: -KGI makes a splash in the press
Help plant a KGI "pod" in your community
Little by little, kitchen gardeners are starting to organize themselves at the community level into "pods". These pods can be as small or large, formal or informal as you want. Pods take on community projects, share gardening know-how and information, and share good, locally-grown food. To learn how you can organize a pod in your area, please make sure that you are signed up to our local organizer list. To do this, click on the "update your user profile" link at the bottom of this e-mail and click the "local organizer list" box.
Home-grown homeland security!
Your support helps us to plant the seeds of a garden-powered, community revival. Thanks.
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Dear Kitchen Gardener,
Since I'm assuming that some of you will not be able to make it (for example, those of you from Argentina, South Africa and Australia!), I thought I'd give you a quick virtual tour of my June garden through the picture above. I've left out a few identifying labels (e.g. garden hose, kale, onions, misplaced toys, etc.) for lack of space , but it gives you a feel for what's planted. For those of you who are curious, that's not grass growing in between my beds, but fresh untreated grass clippings that I put down as a mulch...very soft under summer's bare feet. I've posted a high resolution picture of my garden here without the labels if you want to see it in its natural state.
As you can see, it's been a busy month getting plants and seeds in the ground and quite a few greens out and into the family salad bowl. It's also been a busy month at KGI "headquarters". We harvested a bumper crop of public awareness raising this past month due to an Associated Press article that featured our efforts to bring about a kitchen garden revival. The article appeared in over 30 papers across the US and has attracted a number of energized people to our effort. Welcome newcomers!
Speaking about reaching out to new folks, I continue to brainstorm ideas for reaching out to people, some old, some new. In the new category, I've recently posted a new short video to youtube,com which hopefully will get people thinking and, ultimately, eating in a different way. If nothing else, it's good for a chuckle. Please pass on the link if you find it worthwhile. We're also adding prizes to our "Grow-Off Show-Off" competition, too, so be sure to check that out. Grand prize is $500 and all the international celebrity one gardener can handle.
For those of you who can't make it to Scarborough, Maine for our celebration of Kitchen Garden Day, why not throw a little garden party of your own? That's the best way I know to grow the number of home-growers: by bringing new people into kitchen gardens - whether big, small, urban or rural - to show them the quantity, quality, and diversity of crops a small plot can produce.
I know this works because I just recently helped some neighbors who attended our Kitchen Garden Day party last year plant their first garden. They're delighted to be eating their first home-grown foods ever. If that's not cause for celebration, I don't know what is.
Happy summer,
PS: Next month, I'll report from southern France: ooh la la, good things ahead! |
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