Eating Locally

Have you heard of the 100 Mile Diet? In 2005, a Canadian couple decided that, for one year, they would only eat food grown within 100 miles of home. They had some great challenges finding foods they craved and staying within their budget, but over time, they learned how to manage a local diet.
Why eat a local [...]

Kitchen to garden and back

Urban Tokyo is so crammed with people, concrete, electrical wires, train lines and bicycle parking that it takes som ingenuity and nerve to nurture green things in the tiny spaces in which you can put a pot or some soil. Last year Pingmag featured photos of guerilla gardening in Tokyo’s cramped streets. I’m out in the burbs [...]

Home grown food security

I’ve started guerilla gardening in the sideyard, putting in a few fall-flowering bulbs and herbs. The soil on the back slope looks good enough to grow vegetables in. All that space behind the building is untended, and in a country where arable land is expensive, I find it so wasteful to not work this patch.
Kashiwa [...]