Tropical fruit stamps are on sale HERE. Get them while they’re ripe.

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

As one might expect by taking a look at this blog’s header graphic, I’ve been getting quite a bit of email about the tomato recall. I have been reading the stories, the analyses on various listserves and blogs, and the lists of precautionary measures. I’m going to be honest with you. Banning spinach is one thing

Patrick O’Malley, ISU Extension Eastern Iowa Commercial Horticulturist, and Duane Gissel, ISU Extension Scott County Horticulturist, offer insight into recovery for flooded gardens:      If flooding is from pooled rainwater, it should be safe to continue gardening.      If the water is from river, creek or other sources that may contain raw sewage, such as untreated release

USEFUL STUFF [IT] The Story Behind Google’s New Favicon [IT] Overview of Firefox 3 [Future] Cisco Experimenting with an On-Stage Telepresence Experience (that I haven’t heard of this before is almost as mindboggling as the technology itself) [Economy] [Nature] Why bananas are a parable for our times (via Nina. You will be missed dearly ’till September!) [Man-made] [Nature] TED Talks

Because the car buying trip took so long, we have put off our departure one day, that still only gives me two days back instead of three, to get everything packed up and do some reflective wandering, preparing to say goodbye. Yesterday turned out to be a lovely day of doing both of those

Just a little list of the top 10 things I want to do this summer with MLM or would like to do given the time, money and / or energy: 01. Picnic at the park - complete with cute picnic basket, kite flying and a yummy dessert. I have actually never been on a picnic so

5.2% ABV on draught (Valhalla is too motherfucking dark to take pictures in) My final beer of the night on my recent visit to Valhalla.  And, yes indeed, you better make a fruit beer one of your final beers of the night.  I had already built up goodwill and established my drinking street cred by making

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, has been proven over the years as a crucial component in the fight against heart disease. Studies have been done over the years and a Noble Prize winning scientist has proven that Vitamin C is very important not only for a healthy heart and cardiovascular system, but for

Not that I’d know. Have you heard of miracle fruit?  I hadn’t until Jenny at I’m Never Full introduced the rest of the Houston Chowhounds to this arcane bit of nature.  She wrote an entry on the mysterious fruit, describing them as “trippy berries” that will “change your tastebuds for 30 mins to an hour and cause