Ginger is another plant that grows here without my intervention. It isn’t true “Accidental Gardening” (which is what i call the self-seeding of various edible plants in my garden, like verdolaga or cherry tomatoes) because i planted it intentionally after a piece of ginger i had bought to cook with had sprouted roots. I had […]

This is the first and most beautiful of the 4 cucumbers that comprised the entire harvest of my cucumber plants.

We have three different types of lemons in our yard … limón real, which is a local variety that are as large as large grapefruits and contain about a gallon of juice, export lemons, which are the size of lemons you find in north american grocery stores, and this variety, which is the most common […]

This is the third post about lilies in the last couple of weeks … and covers the three types of lilies I have planted outside of the office windows … all of which have bloomed one after the other. This giant specimen is the last of the three.

These beautiful white lilies sprang into flower a couple of days ago after our first intimation of rains.

Last year, Project Ix-canaan hosted a vermiculture workshop led by Cathy Nesbitt of Ontario, Canada (Cathy’s Crawly Composters) and Maria Rodriguez of Guatemala City (Byoearth). You can read more about the workshop here. The goal was to find a way to replentish and reenergise the incredibly bad soil so it would support garden vegetables.