Only a month after planting, I'm already harvesting a beautiful crop of radishes. In many ways, radishes are an ideal crop. They germinate and mature quickly, and they grow wonderfully in association with carrots. [...]

Yesterday, around mid-day, I finally got a chance to snap a photo of the hawk (or falcon?) that's been visiting my garden. I heard him trilling outside the window, and I went outside to investigate. [...]

Historically, the World Bank and the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of the world have been united in their "commitment to poverty alleviation and economic development in the Third World". In other words, the World Bank has been a great source of business revenue for the NGOs. [...]

After one of the wettest monsoon seasons on record, Albuquerque is blooming with all sorts of life; and our backyard microfarm is about as teeming with life as it gets in the middle of America's suburbs. [...]

For the past two years I've been having this problem with my squash. I'm not a plant pathologist, though I have had some success identifying diseases and insects based on past experience and lots of google searches. [...]