2014: The Year in Review

...otices . . . February Advantages and Disadvantages of Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening After a successful straw bale garden in the summer of 2013, I finally got around to building new raised beds to replace some that we had taken out. Our lead and zinc contaminated soil necessitates this, but I wish I didn’t have to use raised beds for reasons I outlined in this post. March Is Ham Radio Useful? The jury is still out on this question, to be honest. I...

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Everything Must Go Part II: Books

...and theology stayed in addition to most of the appropriate technology and gardening manuals. We have no math books (not our subject to put it mildly) and popular science and non-fiction books I get at the library. Everything else “died” and went to our local library’s book sale. What can make it difficult to let go of books, even ones we never really intend to read, is that our personal libraries are an external manifestation of our souls. And, i...

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Saturday Tweets: Bee Stings and Doughnuts

...tps://t.co/ePDfo9XgJ1 — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) October 6, 2016 Common Gardening Practices That Hurt Bees | Garden Rant https://t.co/VTZltXQKTu — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 Solar Power Bucket https://t.co/lskD7gXZi1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 5, 2016 The Truth About Tiny House TV Shows https://t.co/YTAEBuaC7H — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 Perhaps ecological and cultural restoration efforts are about rekind...

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Saturday Tweets: Flatworms, Potatoes and Old iPhones

...bsession:30 Great Gardeners Reveal Why They Garden http://t.co/HWdz2kl1bx #gardening pic.twitter.com/Exy6qaSnNK — Timber Press (@timberpress) June 26, 2015 Ash-Roasted Potatoes: Remember them in Little House on the Prairie? http://t.co/VAsVnp1mqR #NYTCooking — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 26, 2015 Ask Obama save the Arctic from Shell, because arctic critters can’t sign petitions. https://t.co/I9TznyE0EK #SaveTheArctic @savethearctic — Root Simpl...

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What does the loving landscape look like?

...u can see the garden in all seasons. As a start, check out these images at Gardening Gone Wild. *** Okay, so that’s all very well for the professionals and for big parks, but how does this work in smaller spaces? I think it can work very well. We just have to cast our imaginations back in time before the invention cheap artificial fertilizers and weed killers–not to me the lawn mower–made a carpet of turf the universal default setting in home gard...

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