Re: roger dorion

**b*@mchsi.com (Cathy Wilkinson Barash)**

Before I read Judy Lowe's blog in today's Christian Science Monitor, "England Following America's Example" I was going to send a post, but Judy said it so well:

"All of this isnÕt new, even if itÕs taking on more urgency in the current economy. Rosalind Creasy, the guru of edible landscaping has been preaching Ñ and demonstrating the practicality of this Ñ since the early 1980s. She has a fabulous new cookbook, by the way: ÒRecipes From the Garden.Ó"

For the full blog, go to:
http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening/2008/07/07/england-following-americas-gardening-example/

And I've been lucky to be working with Ros - editing as she writes - on the complete redo of her original "The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping" for nearly two years. The new book, also published by Sierra Club books, will be full-color and very much photo driven. It is much more about designing with edibles than the first book, with examples from all over the country of the beautiful landscapes people are creating with edibles of all sorts.  It's been a fantastic project (and continues to be, I'm writing this from my "office" at her kitchen table, but will go back to Des Moines tomorrow after a 5 1/2 week stint here in smoky California). The book is due out January 2010.

On a personal note, when Ros' book came out in 1982, it validatedÑand gave a name toÑwhat I had been doing my entire life. Even as a child, I moved tomatoes in with the marigolds (no thought of nematodes or anything, they were just pretty together). Yet my dad promptly ripped them out and told me in no uncertain terms, "Tomatoes belong with the vegetables, marigolds with the flowers, and THESE marigold stay in the Burpee white marigold bed!" (Some of you may remember the $10,000 challenge that Burpee had every year to see if someone could grow a white marigold )  Somewhere in the Archives, there might even be one of Dad's "Cathy" cartoons that reflects that day. Obviously, I paid as much attention to that as when he told me not to eat the flowers.  In my own gardens, I always included edibles- lettuces, parsley and herbs to line the front walk; pumpkins to hold a slope; eggplants and tomatoes in the flower border - and much more. Until the day Ros' first book came out, people
  said 
what I was doing was crazy. To me it was logical - why waste space and water? And, if my vegetables were in the "back 40" not only were they out of sight, they were out of mind.  

Enough  Well said, Judy!! I agree with Roger, I will vote for the candidate who rips of part of the White House lawn and puts in a kitchen garden, or better yet, creates an edible landscape.

Bon appetit! 
Cathy

Cathy Wilkinson Barash
Author, Photographer, Editor, Speaker, Consultant
Edible Flowers from Garden to Palate 
753 17th St. 
Des Moines, IA 50314
bloominggourmet@mchsi.com
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:17:42 -0400
> From: jo ellen meyers sharp <hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [GWL] roger doiron
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> Pulitizer Prize winning columnist Ellen Goodman talks to Roger Doiron 
> in her column July 4, 2008, about edible landscapes, the White House 
> and Euell "Did You Know You Can Eat Pine Nuts?" Gibbons...remember 
> him?
> 
> http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/07/04/wha
> ts_growing_at_the_white_house/
> 
> 
> jems
> -- 
> Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp