Posts Tagged ‘Augustus Jenkins Farmer III’
The Greatest Show
Silver-haired and with a brand new knee, Momma peers into a draped diorama of shrunken heads, leaning in to listen to a much pierced young man, with gauge opening in his ears big enough you could pass a cupcake through, a handlebar mustache, and a Baltimore accent — which is oddly akin to our own. …
Read MoreDreams of Milk and Wine aka Crinum x herbertii
A friend visited last weekend. He woke up in the night and wrote this little poem: “Milk and Wine,” the old man said. “It’s all I drink these days. Clarity of purpose, strength of bone.” “A strange request,” the waiter said. “But noble, and will do.” And he went over to the bar, to pour…
Read MoreMaking Soil Better with Mushrooms
When you dig up a plant, you get plant, roots and dirt. If you take that plant away, you leave a hole. In field nurseries or turf farms, we do that over and over and over and leave a big hole. Filling that hole can be a big problem. Buying top soil is expensive. It…
Read MoreAsparagus from Seed
Everyone, yes even the web, will tell you that if you want to grow asparagus, start from crowns planted in the fall. But some recent research and plain old common sense says that asparagus from seed can be just as productive. It certainly is cheaper. If you look around gardens this time of year, you’ll…
Read MoreSouth Carolina Safari — Walterboro, SC
Here’s a great little road trip y’all can join in on– it includes romance, food, car culture, farming, blackwater swamps and book stores. Thursday evening, I’m doing a book reading (ok, sometimes it comes off as save-the-earth-preaching) at the Walterboro Farmer’s Market/Colleton County Museum. (click for time/directions). For Columbia, Beaufort, Charleston, Savannah friends, make an…
Read MoreRemarkable people on a road trip to the Haitian/Dominican Frontier
We traveled about 200 miles today. It took over six hours. The map makes it look easy and smooth. But this is Haiti where sometimes pavement turns into goat paths and sometimes street rioters block the entire road with felled palm trees and burning tires. Well, that was a tiny part of the adventure of…
Read MoreSleeping Students, Dog Penis Fungi & More from Intern Isaac
I was teaching a college level class the other day when one fella rolled up his jacket, made a pillow, took some sleep supplements, and went right to sleep. I thought, ‘Son; do you know what an ego blow that is to a teacher?’ But I did something else of course. For five weeks I’m…
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