Many diaspora kitchens survive in exactly by making do and adapting: not by preserving ingredients unchanged, but by preserving an understanding of what each ingredient was doing inside the system of the dish. Over time, improvisation hardens into tradition.
I get it. I had planned to do that too. I had a whole thing drawn out, I had done research.. then I just planted in the ground and in my raised beds (they are made of wood, they came with the house).
Lovely job with the garden entrance, and in stark contrast to the crazy neatness of your garden itself. I too, have a paver story from this week (I don't know what does this, must be the weather, right?). I was seeking morels on the Observatory grounds in a spot where old apple trees have been nearly killed by piles of rubble dumped careless against them by the maintenance staff. I noticed that the most recent pile contained a whole bunch of 12"x8"x2" concrete pavers, most unbroken. In my garden, natural rock hauled from about 100' away on a handtruck (at the expense of my back) forms the retaining walls of terraces, but I have the problem of needing a barrier between the lower terrace and the path in front of the next terrace up to keep the woodchips on that path from invading the terrace below it. These pavers were perfect. Fortunately, I knew who to talk with, and they were kind enough to haul them from the dump site (which is in a restricted access area) to the parking lot, where I transferred them to my 1995 Isuzu pickup. They challenged the suspension of that little truck, but they will do the job perfectly.
Many diaspora kitchens survive in exactly by making do and adapting: not by preserving ingredients unchanged, but by preserving an understanding of what each ingredient was doing inside the system of the dish. Over time, improvisation hardens into tradition.
You have a big garden! Beautiful. And the mosaic patio looks pretty cool :)
I still have a lot of planting to do! But it’s been a perfect spring so far. I wish I could have built the whole thing out of brick and stone.
I get it. I had planned to do that too. I had a whole thing drawn out, I had done research.. then I just planted in the ground and in my raised beds (they are made of wood, they came with the house).
Lovely job with the garden entrance, and in stark contrast to the crazy neatness of your garden itself. I too, have a paver story from this week (I don't know what does this, must be the weather, right?). I was seeking morels on the Observatory grounds in a spot where old apple trees have been nearly killed by piles of rubble dumped careless against them by the maintenance staff. I noticed that the most recent pile contained a whole bunch of 12"x8"x2" concrete pavers, most unbroken. In my garden, natural rock hauled from about 100' away on a handtruck (at the expense of my back) forms the retaining walls of terraces, but I have the problem of needing a barrier between the lower terrace and the path in front of the next terrace up to keep the woodchips on that path from invading the terrace below it. These pavers were perfect. Fortunately, I knew who to talk with, and they were kind enough to haul them from the dump site (which is in a restricted access area) to the parking lot, where I transferred them to my 1995 Isuzu pickup. They challenged the suspension of that little truck, but they will do the job perfectly.
Found money!
And more importantly, re-purposed garbage.