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I CHALLENGE YOU TO ELIMINATE PESTICIDES FROM YOUR GARDEN! With Earth Day today, Stuart and I were pretty devastated to find piles of dead bees outside one of my hives last week! This was a really strong hive and we were planning on giving these girls more room to stop Read more…
How many of you have been looking at seed catalogs and planning what you want to grow in your gardens this spring? Having a Grand Plan of what you want to do in your space is the best thing you can do to maximize effort and minimize costs & can Read more…
I think it’s fair to say that I have been very excited about what I’ve learned about Hugel Mounds and Permaculture over the last few weeks. It’s also fair to say that since I moved here in 2006 there have been several areas of the backyard that I’ve not really Read more…
How often do you come across something useful, even when you didn’t know you needed it! I was wowed when an article on HUGELKULTUR popped up in my news feed! It’s a German word meaning Hill or Mound Culture – a way of growing veggies or plants in a vertical Read more…
More and more I’m seeing articles about the importance of pollinators in our gardens, for our crops and food supplies. A couple of weekends ago I was at the Guadalupe River State Park for their Pollinator Festival with the Mammam Family Public Library. We were talking to folks about native Read more…
Pesticides kill pollinators and they’re not good for the environment as a whole. I quite simply don’t use any toxic chemicals in my garden. This really started when my kids were little. We spent a lot of time in the garden, and I didn’t want to expose them to anything Read more…
Spring is sprung, the grass is rizI wonder where the birdies is..The bird is on the wing – that’s absurd –The wing is clearly on the bird! My grass is certainly riz! But it’s still full of wildflowers so the lawn mower stays firmly in the shed unless I really Read more…
Gardening can be expensive… So anything that reduces that cost is a good thing. The best way to ‘grow’ my garden, in my opinion, is by doing growing plants for free or nearly free. In all of this, I recognize that there is an actual cost in just about anything Read more…
A compost pile, in my personal opinion, is magical. You take kitchen scraps, weeds, clippings, and in my case chicken bedding/poop, then turn it into the most wonderful soil with a little care and attention. It’s the perfect solution to treading lightly with minimal effort. In this blog, I’m unveiling Read more…