About

Welcome to the Green Box Garden! Over the years I have blogged about many various topics, ranging from politics and women’s health to parenting and veganism.  From these I have found that the thing I like to write about most is my gardening and cooking adventures.

I have spent a great deal of time thinking about food. In fact, I have spent so much time pondering food, politics of food, and nutrition that I have considered another degree in nutrition. But alas, I’m also the busy working mother of a toddler, loving partner to the handiest guy around and dog-mommy to two mutts and two chickens.  So I blog, ponder, write poetry and try to stay away from ugliness and negativity.

In case you are unfamiliar, “Island Style” might mean that I get distracted from tasks to do with the garden or farm and go on unrelated tangents, stories or just go to the beach.  Island Time, friends.

There’s some big picture stuff I’m seriously pondering these days, and you might see it here- as a DYI project or poem!  I’m not a fan of ginormous-meat-farming, and there’s a bunch of science that supports the idea that huge amounts of meat consumption is bad for our bodies and the planet.  In fact, I read once that going meatless three days a week would do more for reducing your carbon footprint than driving a Hybrid.  Crazy!

I also take my job as a parent pretty seriously, and most days do my best to raise a thoughtful, kind, healthy boy who loves his veggies.

On our little island, something like 90% of all our food is imported.  Most estimates say that if some kind of natural disaster made it too difficult for the ships to come here our island is 9 days away from hunger.  So we think about Food Security- a lot.  The Green Box Garden is both a part of an effort to depend less on the system, and a symbol of resistance to it.  Shipping pallets represent our dependence on oil and the powers that be to provide for us.  We turned them into food production boxes for next to nothing.  You can see how simple it was here.

I hope you enjoy our stories, efforts and perhaps we can inspire some others to take on some projects in gardening, “urban farming” and writing.