p a t r i c k
what remains of the trees?
what remains of the streets?
what remains of the nights?
little stories scattered by the wind.
Gabriela Herman
A simple approach to cooking on Beetlebung Farm.
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I spent this past summer weeding, eating and photographing at Beetlebung Farm on Martha’s Vineyard. From gardening and slaughtering to harvesting and greenhouse dining, I captured all the magical phenomenon of modern day farming life. Chris Fischer, local chef and farmer, graciously welcomed me into his community. In the first week of the summer, he whipped together an impromptu lunch inside the greenhouse for the farm workers. While sitting there, eating produce that we ourselves had just harvested, looking around the table at new and old friends, I realized what a special place this was.
Summer, I wish you weren’t going to be so awfully busy.
(via sustainable-sam)
Once a young woman asked me,
“How does it feel to be a man?”
And I replied,
“My dear,
I am not so sure.”
Then she said,
“Well, aren’t you a man?”
And this time I replied,
“I view gender
As a beautiful animal
That people often take for a walk on a leash
And might enter in some odd contest
To try to win strange prizes.
My dear,
A better question for Hafiz
Would have been,
‘How does it feel to be a heart?’
For all I know is Love,
And I find my heart Infinite
And Everywhere!”
I get sad a lot (mostly for silly and trite reasons) but I don’t mind being sad when I listen to a certain song or read a certain poem or watch a certain movie.
I cry too easily at the little things and I’m really good at feeling the wrong things at the wrong time, but sometimes it’s because I love some things and some people so much I don’t know what to do with all of it.
(via daaynaa)
Slugs
From: ‘The collector’s manual of British land and freshwater shells’ Second Edition by L.E.Adams (1896)
(via fuckingdreamy)
This Map Shows Where All The Trees Are In The US
NASA’s Earth Observatory just released a map illustrating where all the trees are in America. The map was created over six years by Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey. The dark swaths of green represent parts of the country with the greatest concentration of biomass. You can see dense tree cover in the Pacific Northwest as well New England, which has been reforested after intensive logging in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Maine you are sexy.
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Todmorden: A town where greenthumbs, not sticky fingers, prevail
The Daily Mail pays a visit to Todmorden, a quaint British town that’s littered with raised vegetable and herb gardens where residents can grow — and take — whatever they fancy.The ethnically and economically diverse mill town of about 15,000 residents is home to Incredible Edible, an ambitious, agrarian-minded scheme that’s brought together an entire community under one common goal: to become completely self-sufficient in food by the year 2018.
Wonderful.
