Archive for February 2010

…13 grand
a year in the mead­ow­lands
bored and rural-​​poor, lord, at 35, right?
I’m the best 17 year old ever

In here, though, the yields are oth­er­worldly. “We actu­ally kept a tally of how many cherry toma­toes we grew,” Mr. Tor­cellini said of last summer’s crop. “And from one plant, it was 347.” A trio of cucum­ber plants threw off 175 cukes.

From the NYTimes arti­cle on aquapon­ics. Inter­est­ing read. The waste­water from the fish fer­til­ize the plants, which are grown in gravel, not soil. What’s not to love?

The One That Got Away

Heart­break­ingly beau­ti­ful pho­tos and sto­ries. The pre­vi­ous show­case, Local Fla­vor, is also *very* good. Just make sure lunch or din­ner is a few min­utes away, or else…

I Love Typography’s Google before you Tweet print. How long until some­one makes a t-​​shirt out of this?