Do you love to make mud pies, grow a houseplant, eat veggies, or stop to smell the bouquet on your co-workers desk? Everyone enjoys a bit of green growing around him or her and then there are those that are passionate and needy when it comes to dabbling in the dirt. With this blog, we'll try to satisfy those needs and tell you about what's going on with the Anchorage gardening scene. You know, as I finally learned, it's all about the dirt.
Photographer and gardener Fran Durner (fdurner@adn.com) writes the blog.
Take an interactive tour of the gardens showing in Anchorage's garden tour, with photos and audio commentary from each gardener.
Deadheading and seed collecting
Harvesting herbs from your garden
Municipal Greenhouse Gardeners
Alaska Society of Outdoor and Nature Photographers
Alaska Plant Materials Center:
Fairbanks Georgeson Botanical Garden
Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge
Pyrahs Pioneer Peak U-Pick Farm
South Anchorage Farmers Market
Christmas tree time - 12/4/2008 1:30 pm
Splitting dahlias with Amelia Walsh - 12/2/2008 9:53 am
December Garden Calendar - 11/30/2008 4:39 pm
Thanks - 11/26/2008 9:50 am
Greenhouse, nursery and peony conferences coming in January - 11/24/2008 6:20 pm
About Garden Design - 11/23/2008 4:15 pm
50 Years of Statehood - 11/19/2008 3:26 pm
Try pinwheels for moose defense - 11/18/2008 3:38 pm
Harvest bark responsibly - 11/16/2008 2:52 pm
Have a healthy winter - 11/13/2008 3:09 pm
Bits of this and that - 11/10/2008 8:04 pm
Garden grant money available for 2009 - 11/10/2008 4:00 pm
How did your garden grow? - 11/9/2008 4:28 pm
Snow Makes Sprouts Sweeter - 11/4/2008 3:59 pm
Separated at birth? - 11/2/2008 11:21 am
November Garden Calendar - 10/30/2008 12:06 pm
Valley Apple Guy - 10/28/2008 11:47 am
One more weekend to prepare - 10/27/2008 11:06 am
Autumn elsewhere - 10/23/2008 11:02 am
Apples again on Thursday - 10/21/2008 8:46 am
Season of the Larch - 10/19/2008 6:34 pm
The winter of late flowers - 10/15/2008 3:55 pm
Posted: June 23, 2008 - 8:41 am
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Mike writes: I've been glomming a terrific new book that I couldn't wait to blog about, but Sunday I found that Jim Landers, my former colleague at the Dallas Morning News, has already said it all. His review begins:
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When you read Adam Leith Gollner's "The Fruit Hunters," you think you've stumbled into a particularly lucky Google search. From the first page, exotic facts about fruit lead to hairpin turns into more exotic facts about fruit. The book is a loosely organized series of surprises, made delicious by a writer's skill.
In Borneo, Gollner samples the large fruit of a tarap tree and writes: "The juicy white cubes of flesh fuse a custard sorbet's richness with a cakelike powderiness. The whole thing seems topped with vanilla-spruce frosting."
"The Fruit Hunters" suggests a work on how fruit, like steel or germs or salt, changed the world, and I picked it up thinking it would lead into a stern examination of banana diplomacy and global agribusiness.
Wrong.
"The Fruit Hunters" is a history, all right, but it fuses with a personal mission. Its author joins ranks across time with fruit hunters on a quest for edible rapture. "There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Gollner tries to be there for those 10 minutes.
Read it all -- but you might want to eat something before such a mouth-watering diversion
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