hello world
I needed a place to put down my thoughts on how to prepare myself and my kitten for the end of the world, or the end of corn, or the end of oil. I'm lucky enough to have a home in the middle of the most polluted region in the US, down the street from the LA ports and refineries. This stretch of the LA river is mostly homes and a long bathroom. You should see the way it floods when the rains come, the view from PCH, zooming past the flower shop. I'm lucky enough to have a shared backyard, a patch of dirt seeped with decades of heavy industrial metals and chemicals. There's a luscious ficus tree right in the middle of it. I got some fruit and vegetable plants last week-- strawberries, peppers, chrysanthemum, tomatoes, gourds, three different kinds of mint. I'm still figuring out where and how to grow them. They need good soil and nutrients, protection from pollutants. I got seeds too: kale, peas, cucumber. I want blueberries, and I want a lemon tree. The chainlink fence t...