by Kelli Donley | Sep 4, 2009 | Community, Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, June Cleaver, Kitchen Talk
When a Burundian family left for another state earlier this month, their community garden plot of okra was ready for harvest. Having never eaten okra before, I wasn’t sure what to do with these vegetables. After two weeks of trying to get church members to take...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 31, 2009 | Arizona, Community, Flora and Fauna, Happy Hippie
There is something so spectacularly beautiful about the tenderness growing in the garden. The wateremelon, squash and pumpkin have all sent out these fragile, curling twiny arms — searching for something to cling to. The blooms are cantalope orange and stay...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 26, 2009 | Domestic Art, Earth Mama, Goals, Happy Hippie
It’s really Finny’s fault I started gardening. She’s always showing what she’s growing, cooking and eating and my goodness — it is incredible. I thought I could do the same, nevermind she lives in the Bay area and I’m in the desert....
by Kelli Donley | Aug 21, 2009 | CAOK, Domestic Art, handmade, Happy Hippie
Rosie had a stupid thing happen — her purse was stolen this summer when she was on vacation. We met in Denver soon after the incident. When she lamented her new handbag had just arrived before she’d taken it on vacation, I knew good karma must soon be...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 19, 2009 | Earth Mama, Happy Hippie, Journal
The pumpkins are growing at amazing speed, in part because I keep forgetting to turn the water off and they’ve received gobs of liquid love during the last month. Even those little African seeds have taken off; I swear there are days I come home from work to...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 16, 2009 | Community, Happy Hippie, Journal
We have this date palm at the community garden that came from two congregants who visited Israel in the 1970s and brought home a date. Needless to say, the palm is now giant and has a bunch of babies (shoots) around its trunk that are ready to be transplanted. I know...
