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We have made great progress on my pet project, creating community gardens in Camarillo. Our first garden is opn and about 35 of the 50 families with plots are actively planting their winter gardens.
Agromin came to our rescue with a generaous donation of top soil and compost - 27 cubic yards in fact! Lumber donated by Stock Lumber Company in Camarillo has allowed us to build about 3/4 of the raised beds so far.
Check out the progress on the Camarillo Community Gardens New Page or on the Community Garden Blog
We even have videos and photo galleries...
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 Here is visual proof that we have finally begun construction on the Antonio Garden. This seemingly simple exercise has taken so many awkward turns and suffered so many delays, I was beginning to doubt that we would reach this point...
(Click to enlarge)
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I'd like to both collect and share success and failure reports on heirloom vegetable people have tried. Please leave your comments, and be sure to include the variety and your location.
Our heirloom tomatoes:
'Black Krim' was the hands-down winner. It didn't last all that long, but produced a lot of fantastic fruit. It grew so quickly that it pulled down the heavy-guage wire cage it was in, I'm under orders to grow more next year. It looks very much like the 'Purple Cherokee'.
'Sweet Persimmon' producing still, with large, persimmon colored fruit, great texture and taste.
'Costoluto' tomatoes: I grew Costluto de Fiorentino and Genovise - one flat and fluted like a pumpkin, and the other fluted on top, roound and full on the bottom. Although these are 'paste' tomatoes, they provided excellent eating and had superb texture throughout.
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Michael Pollan offers another view on why American health care costs are so high.
"... the fact that the United States spends twice as much per person as most European countries on health care can be substantially explained, as a study released last month says, by our being fatter. Even the most efficient health care system that the administration could hope to devise would still confront a rising tide of chronic disease linked to diet."
Michael Pollan, a truly great thinker on matters pertaining to food, offers another view on why American health care costs are so high. It (and a lot of other issues) all comes back to our diet. He has previously presented a compelling argument for restructuring our food system in the video 'A Food Agenda for the Next Administration', found on our website's video page...
Read and comment on the whole NY Times story here.
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My web site, with all the forums, blogs, form generators, add-ons, plug ins and template, finally got to be too big and too slow to load and work with in the old software i've been using.
So I decided to try a generated site. Halfway through the experiment, the fact came to light that I had no index.html file any more! THE php-powered site had taken over on its own!
Please excuse any mess while I bring this all together again!
Thanx.
Mike
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