Cauli flower bud ding

Cauli flower bud ding

Caulif lower bud ding

Caul if lower bud ding

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost (thirty four weeks in the compost)

2/5/13 veritas red line 1 - 3

2/5/13 veritas red line 1

2/5/13 veritas red line 2

2/5/13 veritas red line 3

2/4/13 horizon red line 1 - 3

2/4/13 horizon red line 1

2/4/13 horizon red line  2

2/4/13 horizon red line  3

              Winter's Seed of Change                                           25" x 32"              

ochre pigments, wheat flour, Conte Crayons, charcoal, lint & newspaper

NC Cotton Field                                              digital

Aside from stark aesthetic expression Hemp, Cotton and Synthetic Polyester production comparisons for me comes down to which least effects the environment? Hemp clearly is superior in what it gives back to Earth. 

from Stockholm Environment Institute:
http://www.sei-international.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Future/cotton%20hemp%20polyester%20study%20sei%20and%20bioregional%20and%20wwf%20wales.pdf

from Slate written by Brian Palmer;
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_green_lantern/2011/04/high_on_environmentalism.html (spends more line space trying to be a non partial journalist.)

Imbolc, Candlemas and/or a the day the Sun has returned half way to the Equinox

My small kitchen garden of hardy organic Kales, a Cauliflower, Arugula, green and red leaf varieties I picked up at Progressive Gardens in Wilmington, NC in mid November along with garden Daffodils & Red Yarrow have stayed through more than half a dozen freezing night temperatures.

Am seeing a well fed Feast Celebrating Imbolc, Candlemas and/or the day the Sun has returned half way toward the light of the Equinox!