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A Liner Note Detective Wants The World To Know Something About The “London Calling” Cover Photo

The famous cover of The Clash's landmark album "London Calling" was taken on September 21, 1979, according to the liner notes. Except that Dave Marin, a concertgoer who was there when the photo was taken, has a concert stub that says September 20th. And he's spent decades trying to get the world to notice that the album credits are a day off.

“Give us our bunny friends BACK!”

Today a hawk flew off with one of the rabbits that live in our yard. My four year old shouted at the sky “give us our bunny friends BACK!”

We Can Put Old Mattresses To Use In Gardens

A project run by researchers at the University of Sheffield, is using foam taken from discarded mattresses to help Syrian refugees start hydroponic gardens in Jordan.

See My Vest

Today we’re talking about gardeners, and in the future, gardeners won’t need backyards or containers or garden plots to grow plants anymore. They’ll just need a vest!

How About We Put Shade Plants Under Solar Panels?

There's work out of the University of Arizona that says solar arrays can be even more efficient if you grow food underneath the panels. And no, the panels don't block the plants from growing by taking all the sun.

Two year old and the strawber-lilies

Strawberry picking season has begun at Hidden Farm!

Seedlings!

These are eggplant.

Growing season has begun at Hidden Farm

First up: celery, which we have not tried before.

Daisy, daisy, tell me your answer true

The daisies we planted last fall are finally sprouting!

A new growing season

The contractor is busy inside the house, and we’re trying to keep busy outside, getting ready for this year’s garden. Having Owen around means...

This summer is about tomatoes

This is local food - this summer we have tomato plants in every corner of the property, including right outside the front window. We’re...