Im a Slacker

Swiss Chard baby! I currently have 6 of these guys from Sunset Nursery and they seem to be doing well. One of them got attacked by a squirrel but seems to be doing fine after replanting.

Baby Cauliflower! My first plant from seed.....EVER! 4 out of 6 spouted, one of those four got trampled on by an unknown creature.
Mini raised beds on the North side of the yard! As you can see we have a serious vine situation. Constant weeding is necessary. I would kill it but its so pretty when its green and my landlord doesn't really deserve my services as a gardener. Once i leave i want this place to grow over like the jungle.

FRONT BED: Rainbow Swiss Chard & Bolero Carrots

MIDDLE BED: Green Macerata Cauliflower, Dill and Alisa Craig onions

BACK BED: Quinoa (so excited about this one)
Our first orange blossoms, out of the two trees this one is the sour, but hopefull the pruning i did last month and the eradications of the vines that were strangling it will help......unless its a "sour orange" tree.
My Babies!
This little bugger i found stranded in my neighbors driveway in pieces. I glued and clamped it back together and am planning on sanding it and painting it grey!

Garlic Sprouts

Cleaned up the side yard, starting to look presentable, removed about ten feet of vines from behind the orange tree, pruned it, removed ALOT of morning glory vines which i will be fighting till the day i die in this place!

Our new shade plant...the CALATHEA!

Today i got around to planting the first bunch of white onions and texas sweet onions. On friday the yellow and the red are going in.

MY FIRST GARLIC SPROUT! Nice and Healthy. This was planted 3 weeks ago.
Morning sunlight.
Our beautiful compost bins.

new herbs and a new house

Golden Thyme Stevia and Sweet Basil!
Front of house
part of the yard (more pics of outside to come!)

MAin Room + Chris
Hallway to kitchen

The Beginning

As of october 1st i will be moving from my beautiful 900sf loft in Downtown Los Angeles to a 450sf rustic cabin like structure (its a stretch to call it a house) in Silverlake. I am downsizing and i am making sacrifices but as someone who has always been hyper-aware of their impact in the world it is time that i live a life that will synch up with my beliefs. I have 2000sf of unused land to do my bidding. I will post pictures on my process and if my bounty is as it should be i invite everyone to share in the fruits of my labor. Feeding each other and eating together are two of the most basic forms of community, ones that i think as a society we have forgotten. Its time to take our community back, our land back and our lives back. Im tired of eating tomatoes that were shipped from thousands of miles away, im tired of having to choose between the lesser of two evils when im buying eggs and im tired of the incessant marketing, packaging and advertising of food that is a blatant attempt to mask what is really in it.

This is a project not only in conservation but also one in self reliance and a rejection of all the powers that be. I hope that anyone who reads this gains some inspiration, if not in order to start your own garden then to get your butt over to my house and share in the fruits of mine.

Love

Tawny