…or not to spray, that is the question. Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Chemicals, Or to put up with bits of…
It’s a sad commentary on the times that orchardists are having to fence off their groves and risk being beaten up (happened the other week) if they challenge someone stripping…
Drais is a village with a fair bit of history. Settlements dating back to the Celts and the late Iron Age (850–450 B.C.E.). Pretty much par for the course around…
Non, le Gare de Mayence. Cornrowed lavender at the main station
…our daily Fragaria vesca. Aka wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, European strawberry, or fraises des bois. Some plants just TURNED UP unannounced in the flower/herb bed next to the…
…and see us sometime. Cartier-Bresson stuff – no tweaking and certainly no pot of red paint to brighten things up.
Local stuff. And cheap – after the long wait, everything’s come onto the market at the same time. Suits me…
….green. Winter and spring cereals in the fields between Klein-Winternheim and Marienborn
The Green Party has – on occasion – some fairly good ideas. (Some fairly loopy ones too: Don’t bother fixing potholes, just lower the speed limit….) The city councilor with…
After the prolonged winter, we’ve had a good mix of warmth and rain to get the vegetation going. Asparagus – as rare as hens’ teeth and expensive as anything until…
Asparagus is traditionally – around here anyway – the harbinger of spring, Easter/Ēostre and other pagan rites. 2013 didn’t quite get things right – Easter/Ēostre was early, spring was late…
It’s was either very localised or those pesky farmers are turbocharging their asparagus fields again….. (Go on! Ask me about the pyramid…)
Stag’s skull. Water tanks Windmill. Rural Nelson
Local stuff from the market in Gonsenheim
Hollow it out and cut holes in it to celebrate Halloween, that most GERMAN of festivals? What a waste of a good Hokkaido pumpkin! If you absolutely HAVE to slavishly…
My parents-in-law were farmers. Work on a Sunday, like this guy? Never on your life. Elisa, my mother-in-law (and whom I was fonder of than a son-in-law has a right…
So THAT’S how they do it…..
If blue-skinned grapes are WHITE inside, how do they make RED wine? Gather round, children, and I’ll tell you a story. It’s a bit confusing. You all thought that they…
…to stay on the aforementioned straight and narrow when the stuff looks this good…
It’s not that I’m paranoid, but these sunflowers keep following me… Now wonder the Italians call them Girasole. Trivia alert: That’s where Jerusalem Artichokes come from. Although the plants are…
…… and a time to every purpose under the heaven” Too true. Mr Eccles Iastes wrote that, Pete Seeger put the words to music, the Byrds sang it. It’s about…
Serious arboreal trimming taking place in Bretzenheim’s Milky Way (Milchpfad) Not really – the Milky Way is the Milchstrasse and this was the path along which farmers brought dairy products…
Excellent!
Mainly due to some fairly sturdy fencing around them to keep marauding scavengers at bay. (Wire cutters would work, but they’re electrified. O know…..)
Better than Ho Tensis, anyway…
This is one of the guys who got to keep his land when they built Mainz 05’s new football stadium. (True) story’s over here. This is farming like it used…
> The 2010 vintage. Roll on next year…. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
> Seasonal flirtations
> Wooden spoon in the “Straightness of row” category. I thought these things are computerised these days – key in what you want to sow and GPS does the rest.…
> Now that all the nucular (oops, we don’t have to say that any more now that the Idiot Bush is no longer President) nuclear power stations are being…
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