November garden

Just because I'm so proud and can't believe I pulled it off I'm showing you more pictures of my tiny rooftop garden greens. Hopefully the weather will cooperate so I can harvest the spotted lettuce in early December. By the way, I got the seeds for these greens and carrots from the Hudson Valley Seed Library.

Some kind of squash inflicted with fungus

Happy Food Independence Day

Declare you food independence!

Here are two things that made me happy today:

This article on revolutionary urban farmer Will Allen

This video of an edible schoolyard in Los Angeles

edibleLA - Garden School Foundation from edible Los Angeles on Vimeo.

And here's what my son had for breakfast and lunch. I do recall setting a plate of scrambled eggs with fresh chives and whole wheat toast with homemade strawberry jam in front of him this morning, but summer vacation mayhem took over.