botany

What do you do when your neighbors leave you a 1000 gallon trash can full of grass clippings? Make Compost! Here’s how!

A little bit of lovely on a fine spring day in May 2020. [metaslider id=2329]

I thought now was a good time to do a round up of all of the flowers that Rick cultivates around Mezzacello. Enjoy the flower show. For your convenience, here is a link to the Mezzacello grounds so you can…

It’s mid July. That means it’s time to start harvesting the early spring crops! The replacement seedlings are in the greenhouse now. But first I need to not only HARVEST available produce and root vegetables, I need to figure out…

INGREDIENTS 1¾ cups kosher salt 1¼ cups sugar 4 large egg yolks Nonstick vegetable oil spray RECIPE PREPARATION Whisk salt and sugar in a medium bowl to combine. Evenly spread out half of salt mixture in an 8×8″ glass baking…

It’s mid summer at Mezzacello. Today many of the garden beds are resting after harvest. Seedling are coming along in the greenhouse and I am fortifying the lasagna beds with molecular iron and magnesium sulphate (Ironite and Epsom Salts) and…

A post on how food is used, recycled, and repurposed on an urban farm! The birds, rabbits and fish – even compost and worms.

How does Mezzacello resemble a Martian Colony? Both will be an artificial self-enclosed, sustainable, multi-stream ecosystem.

It can be easy to allow a volunteer plant to grow in a garden. You can have many reasons why this will appear to be a good idea. You might see it as free food, or maybe the birds love…

Pests. Can’t live with them and (at least on Earth) can’t live without them. From rats in the alley eating trash to mosquitoes breeding somewhere in shallow water, to squash nymphs surviving in the same nutrient dense compost I have…