Hellgate CSA Blog - Astoria, NY

As tomato season and tomato shares have been arriving, I’m sure the one thing we’ve all been thinking about is how to make a good tomato sauce. The terrific site, Apartment Therapy: The Kitchen, had a post up yesterday about this particular subject:
When we make tomato sauces, we reach for the deep, tall, [...]

From Just Food:
Permaculture is a contraction of “permanent agriculture” or of “permanent culture”. The term was coined in 1978 by Australian ecologist Bill Mollison and his student David Holmgren. It is one of the fastest growing environmental movements on the planet and is an integrated method of using land and resources in ways that sustain [...]

From Just Food:
Did you know that dirt and soil are not the same thing?
Soil is a complicated system of air, water, minerals, organic matter and living organisms (an acre of healthy topsoil can contain 900 pounds of worms!). Healthy soils which have a balance of all of these elements provide the nutrients that plants need [...]

A good friend of mine sent me this article, so I thought I’d share with you here:
The worm turns … a profit
by Dianne Rinehart
August 7, 2007 at 5:19 PM EDT
On the website of Cathy’s Crawly Composters is a cartoon titled “Getting Into Heaven in the 21st Century.
In it, St. Peter is querying a would-be entrant [...]

From the Organic Consumers Association:
Over the last forty years nitrogen fertilizer use has increased seven-fold and nearly every acre of intensively farmed, conventional cropland is treated with pesticides. A team of scientists explored the impact of pesticides and other environmental toxicants on symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) brought about by Rhizobium bacteria (Fox et al., 2007). [...]