Get Busy!
The growing season is not too far around the corner! Witch hazel is already blooming and my flowering quince buds
Risky Business: Exotic Edible Plants
January is the time when nursery catalogs pour through our mail slots and cold evenings are spent carefully deciding what
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design, ecology, garden, plants, tips
Winter Morning Garden
There are little treasures of beauty peeking out of our winter garden. It takes some searching between the skeletons of
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food forest, garden, plants
Problem Solver: Strawberry Tree
In late fall and winter, you may start to notice a lack of anything looking alive in your landscape. The
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design, food forest, garden, plants
Raking Is Not Homework
“I can resist anything but temptation.” -Oscar Wilde This became the theme of my weekend, for better or worse. I
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backyard livestock, design, ducks, garden, winter vegetables
Early Fall-Coloring Trees
The trees are telling us that autumn is upon us! I wanted to share a few of my favorite ornamental
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design, garden, plants, trees
First Mushroom Foray
I enjoyed my first foray into the world of mushroom hunting recently. Mushroom hunting has been on my “to-do” list
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cooking, foraging, harvest, mushrooms, recipes
Simple Canned Tomatoes
The first frost of the season waits for no one! I can’t use grad school as an excuse to delay
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canning, cooking, food preservation, harvest, recipes, tomatoes
Late Summer Already
How did it get to be September already? Is someone playing a trick on my calendar? Here we are in
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garden, harvest, tomatoes, urban farm, vegetables, winter vegetables
High Desert Plants
We just got back from spending a week roasting ourselves in the high desert country in Central Oregon. The area
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design, plants, traveling