Grow Your Own Sweet Potato Slips

Ginseng sweet potato with slips Sweet potatoes are delicious and easy to grow, not to mention really nutritious.  I think many people don’t grow them because they don’t know how.  Sweet potatoes are grown from small plants called slips, although I usually refer to them as sweet potato starts.  You can order slips from catalogs and sometimes find [...]

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Homegrown Fridays

This year, looking for something meaningful to do for Lent, I’m repeating what I did in 2009. I decided that on the Fridays in Lent I’d eat only what I’d grown. It is both a challenge and an opportunity in so many ways. Since I’m an experienced grower, this might appear to be easy, but [...]

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Introduction to Cindy Conner and Homeplace Earth

I am writing this blog to people who have seen my videos or heard me speak and wonder what I’m up to now.  I am also writing to my former students, who I just know are making a difference in their local food systems.  For those of you who just heard of me, I’m writing [...]

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