May 22, 2008
From the producer: May 24, 2008
“Perhaps more than most, the farmer or the gardener understands that his control is always something of a fiction, depending as it does on luck and weather and much else that is beyond his control. It is only the suspension of disbelief that allows him to plant again every spring, to wade out into the season’s uncertainties . . . (The gardener) eventually learns that every advance in his control of the garden is also an invitation to a new disorder.” Excerpts from Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire.
I read this section just a few hours before thundering hail had us leaping out of bed. This prickly pear cactus left his umbrella in the car.
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