The Hidden Beauty of Pollination

Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination from TED on Vimeo.

Bioneers

A friend of mine got an email from these guys about a conference, academics get lots of these borderline spam invites, but this seems pretty cool. Here is their spiel:

This award-winning 13-part series of half-hour shows features the “bioneers” – social and scientific innovators with breakthrough solutions for people and planet. Cutting edge – charismatic – provocative – hopeful. These are the ardent voices of our most brilliant visionaries with both feet on the ground. They span the rich arc of human endeavor and practical transformation toward a future environment of hope.

Solutions for people and planet... hopeful... feet on the ground... sounds like community gardening!

Bioneers Radio.

http://media.bioneers.org/radio-series/

Here are a few I found intriguing that have to do with community, food, and farms.

http://media.bioneers.org/listing/resilience-from-the-ground-up-a-new-strategic-narrative-bill-mckibben-carolyne-stayton-mary-gonzales-and-colonel-mark-puck-mykleby/

http://media.bioneers.org/listing/flavors-of-a-whole-community-recipes-for-food-justice-nikki-henderson/

http://media.bioneers.org/listing/in-pursuit-of-happiness-becoming-beloved-community-john-a-powell-and-grace-bauer/

http://media.bioneers.org/listing/passing-through-farming-fields-of-dreams-michael-ableman/

http://media.bioneers.org/listing/radical-patriotism-growing-growers-and-seeding-leaders-for-a-real-food-future-anim-steel/

the garden blue jay

thanks for the pic, Laurie!

Garden 28-29 July 2014

 Cosmos, Sara's plot

 Sunflower to be

Lizzy girl action

tidied and pruned front orchard

The garden hired a local tree pruner to begin cleaning up our trees, he did a really nice job, and left us with some beautiful firewood, too.

almond tree looking spiffy

Garden, 5 June 2014

Nikon D600, Nikkor 75-300mm AF

 red tropeana (I think) onion, coastal poppy background

 red russian kale

 collards starting to go to seed, poppies again

grrrrr

walnut

fuyu persimmon

swiss chard

fig

nasturtiums at Gary's

Lizzy Girl

 Lizzy Girl, the garden cat, as a youngster (from George Takei).

15 May 2014

it's hot. 95 in the shade at 11am.

Lizzy the black garden cat is none to happy.

 The new native plant installation (more/better pics to come, plus a plant list) is hanging in, though.

National Geographic: Future of Food

Check out this new bit about the Future of Food and an accompanying blog the Plate look. I took a quick look and reckon people may find it pretty interesting. As an aside, National Geographic photographers were infamous back in the day for carrying around red shirts to hand out to people to add color to their images, looks like that hasn't changed.

Black-headed grosbeak on a loquat tree

photo by garden member Laurie

a timelapse photography project with substantial ghgp content

Please enjoy my recent motion timelapse photography project with many garden sequences.  -Frank
"ellwood and environs"

Symphony of the Soil trailer

there's a UCSB geography professor in this



Symphony of the Soil Trailer from Symphony of the Soil on Vimeo.

a very interesting drought / farming story

cool story about crops/drought

using milk in the garden

this is a really interesting article