Category: Locally Grown

The Seeds Are Here, Time to Get Gardening

March 23, a box of seeds arrived from Johnny’s Selected Seeds and it was like Christmas all over again. Shopping the seed catalogs reminds me of my childhood thrills flipping through the Sears and Roebuck catalog.

Basil, the Great Leveler: Gardening, Deconstructed

If I can do it, you can too! As a novice assigned the task of growing starts for this year’s garden I dove in head first, and ran right into my total lack of experience and, yes, lack of knowledge. After all, what is so complicated about putting a few seeds in some soil and waiting for Mother Nature to take care of the rest? Here it is July and I’m apologizing to Mother Nature (and my husband) for my hubris, my arrogance, and my ignorance.

Bread and Water for 390 Days

Around 2600 years ago, in a Jerusalem threatened by siege, God told Ezekiel he would have to live on only bread and water for 390 days. Ezekiel’s challenge was to survive on a daily ration of just 8 ounces of bread and a little over 2 ½ cups of water. Is it possible to do that? Can you survive on just bread and water?

Local Farm and Garden at Risk? You Are Needed…

One hundred years ago, the Helena Commercial Club, a local service organization, published a booklet promoting the Helena Valley as a “Land of Opportunity for Real Farmers.” Today the Valley is “growing” 5-, 10-, and 20-acre residential lots instead. We no longer hear the rousing enthusiasm for local food grown just minutes from the city limits.

Johnson’s Nursery and Gardens

If you were to eat a dinner consisting only of Montana’s top agricultural products, here’s what you’d have in front of you: steak, a potato (no butter or sour cream, sorry), a big piece of bread, a cold glass of beer, and a piece of black cherry pie. What happened to that salad or side serving of veggies?