modern life

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

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…

This summer has been brutal. But I am not complaining; just making an observation. It is brutal not just because of the heat, but because of how prevalent the pests are this year, That mild winter in 2019/2020 did us…

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…

This is a delightful mashup of carbonara and frittata. We make ours from fresh duck eggs.

A philosophical treatise on the deep relationship between the soil below, the ground and the air above. Told by a tree

Mezzacello is a machine for life in The middle of a place of built utility. The cityscape is optimized to maximize utility to one species AKA humans. A modern city is a precious thing; delicate, dynamic, dependent, distracting. As you…

What is a truly enclosed, self-sustaining ecosystem? It requires that the energy and materials going in are accounted for and amplified coming out.

Swales and Hugelkultur (under soil permaculture) on an urban farm in Columbus, OH. is a winning strategy to combat Climate Reality.