Hip Chick Digs

This is not very gardening or permaculture related. Yeah, not at all actually. I just wanted to mention I added a new link on the right-hand column to Post Secret which is an awesome webpage. I feel like it was in an article in the NYT at some point…
Anyways, people mail in annoymous postcards that [...]

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We are now 6 months into our emerging garden and it seems like a good time to take a step back and observe the progress. There have been some disappointments, but overall not too many. Here are a few thoughts so far…

Nasturtiums are a multi-functioning flower that I hope to always include in the my [...]

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I have this weird notion that I should not have to pay real money for certain things: rain gear, wicker, shelving, baskets, plastic storage bins, etc. It doesn’t really make any sense, and I recognize that. But it doesn’t make that feeling go away and so I avoid to great lengths having to spend real [...]

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This morning was one of those mornings that we all work so hard outside for, and I owe it in part to the Portland rain. It started raining last night and my garden is bursting alive this morning. I took my cup of Stumptown coffee outside in my muddy clogs and took a survey of [...]

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Be warned: This is not so much a gardening-related post as it is a home ownership-rant. You have been warned…
This is our first house and I know some of you readers are in the same boat because I have read your blogs too. It’s hard getting into that first house, especially in Portland. Jay and [...]

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