https://cowonaverse.tumblr.com/ (the actual blog, as is)
https://cowonaverse.tumblr.com/archive (formatted for easier overview of entries)
This is a blog I started shortly after quarantine in March to document my efforts to grow food and enter into the world of home gardening, which I knew nothing about. It started as germinating seeds and beans from the spice rack and pantry and growing things in old yogurt containers in the back bedroom by myself to now working with my partner to manage a flourishing garden from our back porch. As a way to manage anxiety I referred to what I was doing in playful terms.
Key entries include:
- Old Green County – A summation of the interior gardening space by the end of the project.
- The Great Outdoors – A rumination on what it meant to begin the enterprise and finally adjust it to a more sustainable practice.
- Early descriptions of the working area and of the room itself.
The project also became an effort in tense negotiations with the unknown that have relaxed more into trust and calm. I cannot recommend gardening enough to anyone needing the suggestion that a month from now will exist.
I first documented what I was doing in a paper journal, keeping track of sprouts, watering schedules and troubles and observations. Then this moved online to a tumblr blog and continued, covering not only the gardening but general homemaking subjects that I was becoming familiar with like baking and canning and sewing for masks and such. Much is minutia, but that is exactly what was needed to steady nerves and build the emotional capital needed for survival.
As of this writing, the project is more or less over. It is not the initial effort any longer; our back bedroom is once again a bedroom instead of a greenhouse.