One Man Two Hands

Author: Oneman2Hands

  • Our Okra, Eggplant, and Pepper Bounty.

    “The garden gave us its best this morning. Can’t wait to start cooking with these fresh beauties!”

    “Our full haul of Okra, Thai Eggplant, Long Beans, and spicy peppers.”

  • Words of Inspiration from Beyond

    Today i experienced a level of inspiration and at the same time a sobering and deeply thoughtful message. I watched the Netflix interview of Jane Goodall and the open and sincere honesty of her expressing her life experiences unfiltered was amazing.

    Finding our inspiration

    Listening to her sharing how her mother allowed and encouraged her as a child without the traditional guidance to follow certain rules as most children are unfortunately taught many times at the risk of stifling imagination and wonder.

    It reminded me of hearing so many times as a child how much “potential” I had from teachers only not growing up in an environment to receive it.

    ” We are all connected”

    Those beautiful words are admittingly challenging in practice in life but coming from someone who devoted her life to what we call “animals” on a deeply spiritual level and relating to them as they and are can only deeply make you wonder what has happened to human being as we are supposed to be a higher level primate.

    Thank you

    Thank you Jane Goodall and the life you lived and the inspiration your spirit as was and as it is now for giving this 69 year old man hope and inspiration to get out there in the garden 2-4 hours every day. It’s my honor and privilege to be a steward and provide a eco system if only in my backyard that will be benefit for every living thing around me.

    Just a sample of being motivated to allow nature to guide and reward my efforts.

  • Early Morning before the heat

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  • Water Spinach

    Beautiful water spinach in the morning. It goes by so many other names. Pak Boon is what they call it in Thailand and it’s got more names. But anyway, can you grow water spinach in the desert and here in Bakersfield? I guess you can. That water spinach (a.k.a. Pak Boon, Kang Kong, Rau Muống) looks lush, vigorous, and completely at home in Bakersfield’s heat.

  • I’m here to Bee a benefit (pun intended)

    I’m just here to do the work and be a benefit
    Nature always shows up where it’s appreciated. So I’m grateful for that.

  • Never doubt Nature

    Is this nature doing what it is capable of doing. A thriving Turnip plant in 100 plus weather. Maybe next year I plant them until April.

  • Don’t overthink it.

    Well, it’s amazing how you can go in all these different directions, and then you’re going to come back to the basics. And that’s planting more in an ancient, conventional way, with rows and furrows, only I’m using organic compost, spacing, all of the normal efficiencies. So as they say, don’t try to reinvent the wheel.

  • The fruits of Labor

  • The value of the work.

  • Progress Not Perfection

    Progress not perfection. I’m halfway there amending each grow bag for summer planting as the window is just about closed.