It’s called The Miracle Tree. It’s about a tree that might make wishes come true. And also about reality, race, politics, ecology, trees, love, redemption, spirituality, hope and miracles. It’s supposed to be funny.

Buy the eco-friendly, plant-saving, guilt-assuaging, electronic version here. Offered [...]]]> Spitting in the face of common sense and economic feasibility, I wrote a novel.

It’s called The Miracle Tree. It’s about a tree that might make wishes come true. And also about reality, race, politics, ecology, trees, love, redemption, spirituality, hope and miracles. It’s supposed to be funny.

Buy the eco-friendly, plant-saving, guilt-assuaging, electronic version here. Offered at the low-low price of $5, for which you get your choice of seven  digital formats (no DRM) to be used on your new Kindle and/or home computer and/or Ipod or whatever. A tree-killing print version will be available in a few weeks for $20.

Listen to a Miracle Tree Author Interview I did with Robert Ouimet of Brainpicker, a cool site of ideas that “won’t hurt a bit.”

The VanGoGreen site has posted an author interview with me for the urban agriculture series I did on a Tyee fellowship. Questions are from Robert Oimet, the ace sound/vid man who put together CBC3.

Check out the VanGoGreen site here.

Even if you aren’t interested in our food future, or are too stretched to get through the [...]]]>

The VanGoGreen site has posted an author interview with me for the urban agriculture series I did on a Tyee fellowship. Questions are from Robert Oimet, the ace sound/vid man who put together CBC3.

Check out the VanGoGreen site here.

Even if you aren’t interested in our food future, or are too stretched to get through the entire 11:08 chat, check out the first 15 seconds. The jaunty intro music is worth a listen. I want a band like that to follow me everywhere.

The coolest thing about the new Home Grow-In grocery store in Vancouver (on the corner of 18th and Columbia) should have been its local-only approach. They sell the best of British Columbia’s bounty, including fruit and vegetables and eggs and cheese and jams and more.

Then we heard [...]]]>

Home Grow-in's Colleen Belli gets it in writing

The coolest thing about the new Home Grow-In grocery store in Vancouver (on the corner of 18th and Columbia) should have been its local-only approach. They sell the best of British Columbia’s bounty, including fruit and vegetables and eggs and cheese and jams and more.

Then we heard about its pay policy: they don’t take credit or debit cards. So what if you didn’t bring cash? They give you the stuff anyway and tell you to come back with the money when you want.

I know…we weren’t sure whether to believe it either, but click on the podcast to hear what happened to a guy who’d earlier walked off with $70 worth of plants. Home Grow-in is worth seeing just for the scene, but don’t miss out on the local treats. You may not in this lifetime taste a better spicy dill pickle.

Can Urban Agriculture Save the World?

I’m doing it together with famed compost aficionado Spring Gillard, author of Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator, Edible Essays on City Farming.

Hope you [...]]]> We’re up and running…well not really running. But standing, and talking, to all kinds of lively people for a podcast series out to answer a simple question:

Can Urban Agriculture Save the World?

I’m doing it together with famed compost aficionado Spring Gillard, author of Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator, Edible Essays on City Farming.

Hope you like the first one…we’re still just feeling our way around, cautiously, in this case, as we’re on a roof. It’s in downtown Vancouver, where we meet a guy growing tons of food, when he can harvest it before the punk crows and roof rats show up.

Skyfarmer Ted Cathcart