good article about a healthy diet

interesting. fruits, seeds, beans, whole grains, vegetables. also touches on the politics/history of nutritional guidelines.

Greenhouse & Garden Project at UCSB

Awesome new video about our beautiful garden! :)

Some New Seedlings

This past week at the Edible Campus educational plot, we started planting some new members for the garden. We are excited to see this variety of plants grow, and are already starting to see some progress. We have beets, kale, broccoli, onion, carrot, summer squash, beans, marigolds, and chamomile, oh my! To protect the starts from birds and pests while in the greenhouse we covered them with a cage from the garden beds. Here's some pictures of the progress so far, so exciting to watch them come to life!

Gary Ladybug photos

This is currently going on, ladybugs eating aphids eating kale

Gary's bird photos

Gary has been in the garden since 1988 ish, and recently retired, so he's moving on. These are a few of his bird pics from the garden.

this last one shows evidence of crazy global warming -- sea level was higher and climate was much cooler back in '88 :)

a few from today

 poppy, calendula

 icelandic poppy seed heads

 Cooper's hawk

Manager Shed Door

The manager shed has had a busted door for a while, it was held on by maybe 1 hinge, and it finally broke about a week ago. Today Ron showed up with a full bag of tools and we were able to reinforce the hinge area with a 2x6 and install 3 new hinges. Easy to get out the weed whackers and sell chicken wire again.

Pineapple guava

Our pineapple guava are starting to flower now, the flower petals are edible and taste like cotton candy! Give them a try.

Calamondin

Quick post on the citrus tree in the garden. It isn't a kumquat, they have a sweet skin and sour fruit. It's a calamondin, which are apparently fairly common in the Philippines, sour skin, sour fruit. If you eat them for the vitamin C rather than expecting a sweet treat they are quite nice! Here are a few online links, Purdue Horticulture, wikipedia.

good TED radio hour on food

quality radio

Monarch caterpillars

Frank has a monarch way station with some milk weed plants, and some happy caterpillars!

 where's waldo?

 open cocoon

 sequence of 3, notice the leaf disappearing!

newly hatched monarch via Frank

Garden 10 April 2016 by Gigi Kinnaman

Garden board member Frank gave his daughter, Gigi, his Olympus and she took some great photos yesterday during the workday. She even got a decent pic of me, a rare thing indeed. Full album here

Lizzy

coastal poppies

Alex, great new gardener

Calendula, i think

yours truly, amazingly shirt not too dirty

abstract

electric chard

come to a workday and sometimes you get free veggies!

Garden Flowers, 29 Feb 2016

 almond

 crocosmia

 coastal poppy

 peach

what's a garden post without a pic of Lizzy?