Several years ago I tried straw bale gardening and documented the project here: http://mickeysmusings.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/straw-bale-gardening/ (note, this garden was done in 2010, so the date on the post refers to the last time I updated the post, not the actual date of the project).
I definitely enjoyed straw bale gardening and plan to do it again, although our season is so late this year, I'm not sure this is the right time. In any case, I am definitely NOT an expert gardener, a fact clearly evidenced by the state of my lawn. Of all the things I have focused on with a passion in my life, gardening is near the bottom of the list. Nevertheless, a reporter from the Minneapolis Star Tribune working on an article about straw bale gardening ran across my blog and contacted me for an interview last month. It was such an unexpected request and I felt so inadequate to be representing the topic, that I pretty much just answered her questions as simply as I could and then forgot about the call until my friend Lynn asked if my interview had ever shown up in the paper.
It did--last month. Pretty ironic that after decades of patient advocacy on behalf of rare diseases my claim to fame (such as it is) comes from a one-time backyard project at which I was only moderately successful. Funny what rises to the top in our world.
I definitely enjoyed straw bale gardening and plan to do it again, although our season is so late this year, I'm not sure this is the right time. In any case, I am definitely NOT an expert gardener, a fact clearly evidenced by the state of my lawn. Of all the things I have focused on with a passion in my life, gardening is near the bottom of the list. Nevertheless, a reporter from the Minneapolis Star Tribune working on an article about straw bale gardening ran across my blog and contacted me for an interview last month. It was such an unexpected request and I felt so inadequate to be representing the topic, that I pretty much just answered her questions as simply as I could and then forgot about the call until my friend Lynn asked if my interview had ever shown up in the paper.
It did--last month. Pretty ironic that after decades of patient advocacy on behalf of rare diseases my claim to fame (such as it is) comes from a one-time backyard project at which I was only moderately successful. Funny what rises to the top in our world.
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