Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: garden

  • How to build a spot-watering system for berries, bushes, and trees

    So you’ve planted some blackberries or raspberries or blueberries, and you spent your first year trying to remember to water them deeply once a week.  Occasionally you’d leave the water on all night by accident.  Occasionally you’d forget to water on that one week when it was blisteringly hot, and your berries nearly died.  And…

  • Animals are Meat: A Follow Up

    It’s now been about 24 hours since I posted the photo on Facebook of a free-ranging rooster from a chicken farm near Dallas that I was about to dispatch to become part of the menu at FRANK this weekend.  Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined what a magical 24 hours it would…