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Saturday Farmer’s Market is a new feature I started to showcase, well, gardens!  This summer especially, I have really come to enjoy everyone’s garden posts and I selfishly want to see them all, every week!  And as you all know, I’m all about the sustainable living!  So give me your garden photos, your gardening books you’re reading, even give me pictures of your Farmer’s Market loot from the week!  I want it ALL.

Today I want to talk about books.  Yes, I know, I talk about books everyday!  But these are not just any books, these are farming books!  These are some of the books I hope to read over the winter, to prepare for next spring!

“By turns edgy, moving, and hilarious.” -Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food

An unforgettably charming memoir, Farm City is full of hilarious moments, fascinating farmer’s tips, and a great deal of heart. When Novella Carpenter-captivated by the idea of backyard self-sufficiency- moved to inner city Oakland and discovered a weed-choked, garbage- strewn abandoned lot next door to her house, she closed her eyes and pictured heirloom tomatoes and a chicken coop. The story of how her urban farm grew from a few chickens to one populated with turkeys, geese, rabbits, ducks, and two three-hundred-pound pigs will capture the imagination of anyone who has ever considered leaving the city behind for a more natural lifestyle.

This just sounds like all kinds of awesome.

Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature. With chapter ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn and a dispatch from one man’s war with a woodchuck to reflections on the sexual politics of roses, Pollan captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its glory and exasperation.

I have actually owned this for years now and still haven’t read it.  I’m not sure why, because it sounds really good!  If the AHS says it’s one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening, you know it has to be good.  And  I just love the sound of “manifesto” don’t you?

In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history’s darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have.

Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author’s belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth’s remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places.

Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.

I love Barbara Kingsolver’s nonfiction and had no idea this collection included essays on gardening (among other things).  It just sounds fantastic though. I totally have to read, or listen to, it.

All summaries come from Barnes & Noble.com

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Saturday Farmer’s Market is a new feature I started to showcase, well, gardens!  This summer especially, I have really come to enjoy everyone’s garden posts and I selfishly want to see them all, every week!  And as you all know, I’m all about the sustainable living!  So give me your garden photos, your gardening books you’re reading, even give me pictures of your Farmer’s Market loot from the week!  I want it ALL.

Okay, now here is my real post!  My poor garden. See?

However, my okra is kicking ass!  It just loves this hot weather.  I am definitely planting this again next year.

Look who is still hanging around?  He’s not going to like it when I go pull all those tomato plants up.  My garden will be looking very different next week!

Sometime this week (or maybe even today, if it cools off!) I’m going to pull everything up and plant these.  Well, everything but the okra!

As for my farmer’s market haul…I got some corn to freeze for this winter, some squash to fry up with some onions, some mountain apples, and this.  This. is. yummy.  I give you Garlic Rosemary Bread!!! *drool*

Yes, yes you do want some. It is so yummy! I think it shall be my supper.

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Saturday Farmer’s Market is a new feature I started to showcase, well, gardens!  This summer especially, I have really come to enjoy everyone’s garden posts and I selfishly want to see them all, every week!  And as you all know, I’m all about the sustainable living!  So give me your garden photos, your gardening books you’re reading, even give me pictures of your Farmer’s Market loot from the week!  I want it ALL.

It’s been a wild day in Casa CR.  The young son woke up WAY TOO EARLY this morning throwing up everything in his stomach. I had to go get him from his Mema’s house at 5 AM.  Seeing as how I didn’t go to BED until 3 AM, I am a little bit tired.

Kiddo is feeling much better now see? Thank goodness! Hopefully there is a nap in my immediate future.

So yeah, I just now went out to take some pictures of my poor, rapidly dying garden.  Well, not so dying.  The okra is going crazy!

This is what happens when you wait too long to pick your okra. You get monster okra!

But the tomatoes, they look rather drying up yes?

I figure they have about a week, maybe two tops.  I’m thinking of ripping them out and planting some collard greens. We love us some collards!  It just needs to start cooling down a little bit first.

Of course, I don’t think this guy will appreciate me doing that!

He isn’t the only creepy-crawly hanging on in the garden.  My basil has bloomed (I’m letting it go to seed) and the bees are LOVING it.

So? How doth your garden grow? I’d love to see your pictures, hear about the books you’ve read, or any Farmer’s Market goodies you got!  I didn’t get to go today Just add yourself to ole Mr. Linky down there.

Saturday Farmer’s Market is a new feature I started to showcase, well, gardens!  This summer especially, I have really come to enjoy everyone’s garden posts and I selfishly want to see them all, every week!  And as you all know, I’m all about the sustainable living!  So give me your garden photos, your gardening books you’re reading, even give me pictures of your Farmer’s Market loot from the week!  I want it ALL.

I’m not going to be able to post about the garden today.  I have a hot date with my nook hubby tonight for our anniversary!  But if YOU posted something, I still want to see it, so link up here!

Saturday Farmer’s Market is a new feature I started to showcase, well, gardens!  This summer especially, I have really come to enjoy everyone’s garden posts and I selfishly want to see them all, every week!  And as you all know, I’m all about the sustainable living!  So give me your garden photos, your gardening books you’re reading, even give me pictures of your Farmer’s Market loot from the week!  I want it ALL.

Y’all. The heat. Oh my goodness.  It is so unbearably hot here!  And the humidity?  You could give the air with a knife.  I love the South, but I like FALL in the South more.  Whew!

I mean, look at what it has done to my tomatoes!  Just LOOK!

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The okra though? The okra is LOVING this weather!

and look! Our friendly neighborhood, uh, spider, was hanging around.  I wonder what he thinks of the heat…

Writing spiders are just so cool, yeah?  Well, I’m off to can some more tomatoes, make more apple cinnamon jelly and try to figure out how to make Asiago Peppercorn bread.  How is your garden doing this week?  Read any good gardening books?   I’d love to hear all about it, just add yourself to ole Mr. Linky down there.