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VIDEO: Vivian Reiss on Growing Cotton in Your Front Yard, With 100% of Canada’s Cotton Crop
Artist, designer and urban farming pioneer Vivian Reiss in her garden in Toronto, Canada, showing off her cotton plants she grew. This cotton crop was 100% of Canada’s cotton output this year. Learn how to plant and grow cotton, and … Continue reading
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Tagged cotton, crop, gardening, gardens, toronto, vivian reiss
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New HD Video of Vivian Reiss, interviewed in her garden
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Tagged amaranth, broom corn, candied rose petals, garden, interview, toronto, urban farming, video, vimeo, vivian reiss
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Of Rye and Radishes
Rye in my garden This morning looking out at my garden, I noticed that the rye was ripening in the paisley bed near the elephant. How did that happen? Just yesterday I had pulled out the maple syrup taps from … Continue reading
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Tagged breakfast radishes, curly cress, french, french breakfast radishes, mizuna, rye, rye bread
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“To V. or not to V.” The 3rd Act
The invitation to my birthday party read, ”To v. or not to v.?” That is the question. Come to a birthday party to celebrate my birth, rebirth and the birth of William Shakespeare. I’ll supply the Elizabethan feast, please supply … Continue reading
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Tagged elizabethan dancing, elizabethan salat, elizabethen feast, gilded marzipan, lavender, rosewater, salat, shakespeare's birthday, shallots, sonnet
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Getting to The Root of the Matter, How Deep Are Your Roots?
If you think; ” a new broom sweeps clean,” is a refreshing adage, you have no idea of how the concept of getting to the root of my garden’s suffocation and plague is rejuvenating. After all, a new broom is only sweeping away … Continue reading
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Tagged beets and horseradish, horseradish, horseradish root system, Hungarian cucumber salad, mandolin, Passover, roots, triple mix soil, uborkasalata, weeds, yellow beets
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Tomato Panic or Red Alert [or yellow, purple, white, pink or maybe, striped alert]
Last week I had a tomato panic. I found out that Doris Giardino, who grew my beautiful heritage tomato seedlings for my www.124merton.com rooftop garden, was not growing them again this year. What would become of the annual tomato tasting? … Continue reading
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Tagged ake hopatcong, Anna Russian, baked beans, beefsteak, Campari Tomato, giant belgium, heirloom tomatoes, heritage tomatoes, Kumari Tomato, l, lake hopatcong, new jersey beefsteak, paul robeson tomato, red fig.stupice, rooftop garden, Speckled Peach, Tesco, tomato tasting, urban farming, Wapiscon Peach
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Sow to Sew
Last year my boulevard garden yielded, as far as I know, 100% of Canada’s cotton crop. Continuing my quest to live off the land in the city and grow “wearables” not just edibles, it was time to plant this year’s … Continue reading
Palm Beach Hedge Fund
In midieval San Gimignano tall towers were the symbol of wealth and power. Eventually there were 72 such structures rising ever higher in this Tuscan hilltop village. Today few still remain. In Palm Beach, Florida such symbols are thriving and are indeed literally living … Continue reading
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Flora and Fauna, US VI
I didn’t manage to capture the dolphins dancing and playing for us in the bay below our house but did capture the hummingbirds feeding on the cactus flowers. Here is a photo gallery of some of the wild goats ,chickens , donkeys ,insects, … Continue reading
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Banana Bird
I am on the furthest eastward point of St. John US VI in a beautiful rented villa open to the sea and air on all sides. The only discordant part of the gorgeous setting and decor are the fake indoor plants that … Continue reading
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Tagged banana, banana bird, butter, cookies and cream ice cream, cookies and creme, fale, ice cream, knob creek bourbon, st john, St John US VI, us vi
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Bull’s Blood Beets
I planted several varieties of beets in my garden including, “Golden, Early Wonder, Flat of Egypt and Chioggio.” They range from the lovely pale anemic beet, “Albino”, to the “Bull’s Blood” beet that bleeds a healthy iron red from the moment I cut the … Continue reading
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Tagged albino beets, amaranth, beet salad, brined pickles, bull's blood beets, bull's blood wine, chiogga beets, egri bikaver wine, golden beets, hazelnuts, meatballs
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In a circular line, it all comes back
It was announced that for the first time in years the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks were to displayed in the Hudson River. The last time I had seen them over the Hudson, was in the year of my sixth grade graduation. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 137 Riverside Drive, Circle Cruise Line Manhattan, Circle line, culinary chronicles, culinary historians of Canada, hops, irving garten, Macy's fireworks; 4th of July, rooftop, rooftop vegetable garden, urban farming, urban farming pioneer, William Randolph Hearst
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Cotton is High!
The world price of cotton in October of 2009 was 66 cents per pound. By October of this year, the price of cotton had risen to $1.26 per pound.The price of cotton had risen dramatically in the past year and that was the … Continue reading
Packaging up the chard
My chard grows to great height and girth. I never harvest the plants until I have warning of imminent frost, since it is part of my decorative garden and people enjoy observing the plant’s beauty. Harvesting a few leaves every now and … Continue reading
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Tagged bay leaves, chicken soup, cilantro, rainbow chard, turkey, water chestnuts
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Canadian’s Environmental Satisfaction
Who would have thought that me and my rooftop garden would become the Poster Garden and Girl for Canadian’s evironmental satisfaction?http://www.canada.com/health/Local+environments+viewed+favourably+Canadians+despite+broader+concerns+Survey/3687326/story.html Congratulation to the lucky tenants at www.124merton.com
Summer Squash:Liquid Sunshine
Several years ago I put on an event at my gallery www.vreissgallery.com called ” The Neuroscience of Molecular Gastronomy” http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=# http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=# It was a collaboration with my daughter, Ariel Garten ,who lectured about how we perceive taste and art through our senses and the history … Continue reading
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Tagged aeration, fizzalator, foam, molecular gastronomy, neuroscience, reiss gallery, shitake, truffle, winterlicious
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Sorghum: The Sweet Taste of Success
Sorghum; the sweet extracted juice This Summer’s boulevard garden was a great success. The broom corn reached a record height of 15′ 8″. Nestled among the amaranth, broom corn, cotton, beets, artichokes, buckwheat, zinnias, dill, Swiss chard, upland rice, coriander, eggplants, … Continue reading
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Tagged northern sugar cane, sorghum
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On the Boulevard: My Front Chard
One of the most beautiful, healthy and delicious parts of my garden is my “front chard”. It grows between the sidewalk and the road on a patch about 140 square feet ,which is about the size of a large Tokyo apartment or … Continue reading
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Horseradish, of Plague and Pleasure
Horseradish leaves in my garden in the Fall The first thing we harvest from our garden in the Spring is horseradish for our traditional Passover plate. We dig up the root ,wash and peel it and then don snorkeling gear to grate it. … Continue reading
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Tagged food, garden, horseradish, recipes, urban farming
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A New Series Beginning: Giant Garden Paintings!
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Tagged art, garden, landscape, painting, urban farming
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Summer Squash: Sunshine
In the third quarter of July, I noticed a little empty space in the garden leading to the house. It was a stubborn piece of earth. In that spot, I had tried several times to germinate watermelon seeds and seeds from particularly … Continue reading
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Too many tomatoes? Let’s play ketchup
The rays of the late afternoon sun are lengthening and what seemed impossible two months earlier is now a reality; there are too many tomatoes to eat and too little time to enjoy them. There has to be a way … Continue reading
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Tagged catsup, cinnamon, cloves, hamburgers, ketchup, lettuce leaf basil, mace
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“Living in Full Color” in Today’s Toronto Star by Vanessa Lu
Living in full colour On a tree-lined street in the Annex, passersby are struck by giant corn stalks, just part of a whimsical, colourful garden that’s the brainchild of artist Vivian Reiss. You can view this story at: http://www.thestar.com/yourcitymycity/article/856689–living-in-full-colour … Continue reading
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Tagged Annex, arugula, egyptian onion, fennel, Q-tips, red sandals, red sunglasses, vanessa lu, vibrant
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When the Garden Was Just a Twinkle in the Elephant’s Eye
In the post of August 29th, I was struggling to measure the broom corn with a ten foot pole. I needed a fifteen foot pole to touch the tops of the corn. In this photo if you look at the tiny … Continue reading
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