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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…