“ None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.” ― Allen Ginsberg The weatherman stated that we have not had any significant rainfall in over two weeks. Nor did he see any relief in site. We are not in drought conditions yet, we are just unusually dry. Interestingly enough, Pennsylvania should be getting warmer and wetter in the future if the climate models hold true. If we narrow that down even more to my home town , the picture becomes even more interesting. Solar Punk Pittsburgh For now though, I was worried about my garden. It is not that big, I basically have a variety of containers around where I am maintaining lettuce, leeks, tomato's, peppers, strawberries, grapes, sunchokes (which I was really interested in growing) and a few other things. Every garden needs to be watered and I played around with the idea of a r ain water collection systems before, we even had a simple one i...
Can the City Mouse adjust to life in the country? The day to day adventures of a "city boy" in rural PA trying to adjust to things like chopping wood, growing his own food and dealing with the horrors of the complete lack of a decent Chinese restaurant.