by katie | Dec 10, 2010 | Annuals, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Perennials, Self sustainability
We decided to change our gardens at work to all organic a few years ago. The garden was looking good but it just didn’t sing. We wanted the gardens to be beautiful. radiant, shining with energy. This does not happen using chemical fertilizers.I had tried early...
by katie | Dec 8, 2010 | Fine Gardening, Gardening, Perennials, Pruning, Shrubs, Trees
In our part of rural California , gardening can be quite a recent endeavor .Many people here are living out their dreams and have built their own house and planted a few fruit trees. Then they might get more passionate about the garden and start buying random plants...
by katie | Dec 6, 2010 | Gardening, Self sustainability
For those of you not familiar with the well known farmer / author Gene Logsdon, here’s a interview of his new book. A great article about the importance of manures in farming and soil health ....
by katie | Dec 4, 2010 | Self sustainability
The other day I met my new neighbor.The people below us are the masters of simple living. They rent out their small off the grid cabin for six months every year when they spend the winter in Arizona. They are grown up hippies who live with a wood cookstove for cooking...
by katie | Dec 1, 2010 | Cooking, Gardening, Self sustainability, Uncategorized
Today I pruned the wisteria that are beginning to grow up and across our porch . I took the cuttings and wound them into some wreaths. In a very poor Christmas in the past we used their seed pods to string into ornaments on our tree.They would twirl in the breeze and...
