We are all gardeners

April 2, 2015

Back to the Garden, Gardening, Thoughtstylings

...larger ecology, feeding insects and birds and providing habitat for small animals, birds and reptiles. Loving landscapes join together from house to house to form corridors and refuges for wildlife. There is room for human food crops as well, because abundance is a key virtue in the loving landscape. The garden is a space of reflection and reconnection for the gardener and their family and community. The land is not always tidy, but it is always...

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Saturday Tweets: Pierces Diesease and Electric Squirrels

Mr. Homegrown

January 16, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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...CCE advisors. https://t.co/2HagcxOvON pic.twitter.com/1URJYOiGh2 — Ag&Natural Resources (@ucanr) January 11, 2016 Helping the Homeless on a Budget https://t.co/7IW7aQfsgE — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 12, 2016 Map of power outages caused by small animals: https://t.co/01ZpKsIZ2k — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 12, 2016 The pocket grill https://t.co/42Pej9zQlT — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 12, 2016 The Real Problem With Lunch, via @...

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A Painful Beekeeping Lesson

Mr. Homegrown

July 20, 2015

Animals, Bees

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...tentially dangerous situation not only for myself but for other people and animals. Thankfully it was raining and dark and I was the only victim. It was one of those situations when I knew what I was doing was stupid but I did it anyways, propelled by a needless hysteria. What did I learn? When it comes to beekeeping, never panic, always think ahead and stay calm and deliberate. Use smoke if you think there is any chance that bees might get angry....

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Mulch, mulch, mulch!

Mrs. Homegrown

May 14, 2015

Back to the Garden, Garden Design, Gardening, Permaculture, Soil

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...Sometimes they are confused for one another, but they are quite different animals. Compost, which we talked about last week, is more nutrient rich than mulch. It’s full of life, and inoculates soil with that life. Mulch, on the other hand, is a blanket for the soil. (A blankie, as I think of it in my more regressive moments.) It is not a living material, as good compost is. Rather, it is made up of dead, dry plant matter (dead leaves, shredded wo...

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What does the loving landscape look like?

Mrs. Homegrown

April 16, 2015

Back to the Garden, Gardening

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...ady oasis full of edible trees like pomegranate and mesquite. He said wild animals, like quail, are even moving back in. I still remember the pictures from his presentation, but I’m having a hard time finding anything like them to share with you. I’ve shamelessly screen grabbed a still from a nice short video about Brad and rainwater harvesting, called Free Water, by Andrew Brown. I will share this video again later in this series, and we’ll talk...

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