CuriouslyLocal Product Test: Lane River Organics “Garden Guardian”

by George Packard on August 26, 2010 · 0 comments


Our friends Martha and Hank of Lane River Organics gave us a case of their new product to test on our garden. It’s made with an organic substance produced by their dog, Bailey, which is purported to discourage deer and groundhogs from taking more than their fair share of garden produce. And all you have to do is sprinkle it around the perimeter of your garden. So we gave it a taste test and found it wasn’t too bad. Now we will wait and see what the deer think.

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The Web in our Garden

August 25, 2010

She’s about an inch and a half long, and I haven’t seen her or her kind in the garden for several years. If truth be told, she saw me first. I was deep between two rows of tomatoes, bent over to cut the stem on an heirloom tomato about the size of a loaf of [...]

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Solar Potatoes (and more) with Joan

August 2, 2010

[Joan wrote this post several weeks ago,
so she's cooked lots of meals since!  --George]
July 10, 2010
I started cooking with my solar Cookit around the end of June, here in New Hampshire. After a year or so of trying to tap into all that free heat by doing things like putting black pots full of water [...]

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Taxes and the wild beat of April

April 14, 2010

I filed our taxes electronically yesterday, and in about a week the internal revenue service will return the favor and make an electronic deposit of $172 in our bank account. And that’s all I’ll say about taxes, other than to recall that when I was in my early 20s, living, it seemed, on many edges [...]

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Now I Take me Home Again

March 23, 2010

Six weeks on the road, and hungry for home and the home dirt. Coming back to our garden a few days ago raised in me a sense of purpose and place so elemental that it shocked me. It wasn’t that I’d really missed our house or the few square yards of dirt on which [...]

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The Bobcats are Coming Back to Warner

February 14, 2010

In early February two years ago Chuck, our big black tough tomcat, developed, overnight, a sudden and complete disinterest in going outside. We’d had a few inches of fresh, wet snow, but I’d never known him to be a wimp about the cold. It wasn’t long before I discovered the cause of his concern: [...]

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It’s February. Do you know where your veggies are?

February 8, 2010

Local link: Kearsarge Mountain CSA
Last year about this time we talked with Warner, NH farmer Larry Pletcher about his new greenhouse and his ambition to sell winter greens to the greens-starved masses of the Kearsarge area (view earlier blog). And in fact, he’s gone and done just that. Imagine! Buying and eating greens in the [...]

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Unclogging the blog pipeline…

February 2, 2010

Thanks to our readers and viewers who’ve emailed to find out just which edge of the earth I dropped off. Truth is I’ve been putting any shreds of extra time into getting the new Curiously Local Corner Stores site up and running. And I think that’s a worthwhile endeavor: the goal is to provide access [...]

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Flyman’s Texas Mesquite Honey Mead

January 5, 2010

Jane Packard sent us a note from Texas:
On the way home from visiting family for the holidays, we stopped off to visit Flyman, outside Terrell, Texas. His tagline on the bee blog is “all men are equal before fish”.
After a picante lunch at the Gira del Sol,in a renovated Dairy Queen, he sent us on [...]

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Heidi Douglas & the Kentucky Mountain Trio

January 1, 2010

In November Joan and I drove her father, Denver, down to McCreary County in southern Kentucky, not far from Bimble, the closest town to the little hill country farm where Denver was born and raised. We spent a few days in the Eagle Falls Resort and RV Park, just a quarter mile from Cumberland Falls, [...]

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