by katie | Jan 11, 2011 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Pruning, Self sustainability, Trees
On Sunday I attended a fruit tree pruning workshop at Frey Vineyards in Redwood Valley, Ca. This was following a quarterly meeting of the Biodynamic association. Frey vineyards is an organic and biodynamic vineyard. Biodynamic farming is one of the philosophies of...
by katie | Jan 2, 2011 | Cooking, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Uncategorized
Our chickens have been living in too much mud, although they have a large, well strawed, clean chicken coop to consider.We have a bobcat that loves it’s weekly/bi-weekly organic chicken dinner, finally showing up in the middle of the day staring my husband down,...
by katie | Jan 2, 2011 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
Okay , I get to admit I ride a motorcycle. I have since I was about twelve. Being raised with my brothers and Dad from age 13 on, I was exposed to many machines. I learned to drive towing a boat. My brother who I lived with the most, is brilliant as far as fun ideas...
by katie | Dec 28, 2010 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
Having my first child in a monastery where there were no other kids.We worked seven days a week and long hours each day. I started working again right after she was born . It never occurred to me to do differently, I loved it there, I didn’t want to live another...
by katie | Dec 25, 2010 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Perennials, Self sustainability, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
I have this confusion about what the difference is between a gardener and a farmer? I’m not sure that people in Europe would say a gardener is not a farmer. I’ve maintained 4,000 fruit trees as a “gardener” not a farmer. Now that I’m...
by katie | Dec 18, 2010 | Annuals, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Perennials, Self sustainability, Shrubs, Trees
One of my favorite things about plants is the unbelievable abundance in nature. If you know, or if you look closely you see babies everywhere. Seedling maples, sarcocca, digitalis, perennials that can be divided. Flowers that have reseeded in the garden. Pumpkins in...
