Rebekah is the creator of the “QuOTeD – The Question of the Day Podcast”, a show described as an “audio montage of on-the-spot answers to one good question.” Starting with the tape recorder she bought at a garage sale, for more than 25 years she has been recording conversations with ordinary people who are “just as interesting as any celebrity on Letterman.”
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What does it mean to be grounded?
Can our relationship with the ground ground us? When is a metaphor the real thing? When asked “What does it mean to be grounded?”, it won’t surprise the readers of Ground to Ground to hear people evoke images of the Earth, trees that are solid but flexible enough to sway in the wind (meaning that…
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Not Everything is a Banana
On a hot day a banana peel will disintegrate midair on a trip to the compost heap (or to a ditch… It’s shocking that a person who would choose a banana could be the same litterbug launching garbage from the backseat of a Honda). A banana needs almost no time. What about the recalcitrant eggshell?…
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Teaming with Microbes – The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web
Informed by the soil biology research of native Minnesotan, Dr. Elaine Ingham, Teaming with Microbes – The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis introduces us the cast of characters that live in healthy soil, their relationship with each other and the critical balance needed between these microscopic…
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Oh, the Veggies You’ll Grow!
Oh, the Veggies You’ll Grow! It’s time to get up! Veggies are calling. There! ‘tween the tweeting ten creepers crawling. With a trowel in your hand and a hand in your glove, grow tomatoes! Corn! Greens! Whatever you love! Farmer Dan Brown! You know what tastes good! Le MonsterAnto would bottle yours if he could!…
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Nothing is Wasted
While considering next year’s resolutions doesn’t command the same observance as it did in my youth, I don’t like the smug rejection of the practice. “I don’t make resolutions!” You might say. “It’s just another day.” A new year calls for reflection. So reflect. But last year was a total waste. Total? Three-quarters of the…
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The Beautiful Inexactness of Composting
Annie objects to the smell; I wish I had become an environmental engineer. From the top of the hill to the left we see a concrete slab where the organics are dumped. They will be mixed with a portion of the mountains of yard waste staged to the right and then piled up to form…
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In the Company of Microbes
With a heave and a thud, I heard the 50-pound bin of coffee crack. So that’s what’s costing me almost seven dollars a pop? I’d have to tell Rachel that I had discovered the culprit and to be more careful when she unloaded the grounds from the car. While cold weather makes the bins brittle…
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I want to sacrifice your cashier to a corn goddess.
The breeze is steady and thick with cotton that blankets my garden. An errant puff sticks to my housecoat and I imagine cottonwoods springing up from my arms. The seeds cling to my toast. They land in my coffee. I sneeze. Suddenly, a rabbit makes a break for it, bolting to safety under the deck…
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How I became The Coffee Grounds Lady
I was excited to discover Ground to Ground and look forward to contributing to it, although I do have a confession to make. I am not a gardener. While I did serve on a task force that established one of the largest community gardens in St. Paul and I do maintain a small plot there,…