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Author Archives: Greg
Squash are in, planting is 95% finished
I spent the day planting a bunch of squash and pumpkins. As Carol Deppe’s book Resilient Gardener discusses squash are a critical foundation of food independence, the others are corn, beans, potatoes, and eggs (but not for us as vegans). … Continue reading
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Mud and not Mud, oh history.
Saw this rare breed bee on my wood pile today. It doesn’t move but as always we leave things alone, perhaps it unlocks on celestial nadirs on new moons in August or the such, so who knows. Will advise. Soph … Continue reading
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Spring release, lady bee
Lauren was sitting in the clover patch thinking about life and took this lovely photo. She also has a series called, “Find the bee.” When you see her ask her to show you it, it’s quite interesting to find the … Continue reading
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All bags and buckets to the garden
This is kind of crazy — low 30s tonight and 86F in a day and a half from now. A frost on May 13th is almost a month behind the average last frost of our zone 5b. This is going … Continue reading
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Friends with the fairies
We had an incredible visit with family and found these treasures of white clover to hallmark the joy. You know who you are. Thank you for the gifts! This is a book that speaks to those who believe in the … Continue reading
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Jungle on – it becomes crazy
First of all, a photograph of Soph Dog. Why? Because she has been listening to my exposition of ideas lately. Some of them are related to this blog and some of them are but are not. That’s like the grey … Continue reading
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Rain & Industrial Farming, &garden updates
The bees have found the clover. It’s one of their favorite things ever. I’m hoping to save clover seeds successfully this year to enable a sustainable cover crop plan. This is one load of wood, not too bad for the … Continue reading
Wet & Changeable.
It’s been wet and mostly seasonable the last few weeks (50-75F). A lot of the soil around here is clay based which becomes a problem in the water. As such hardly any commercial farmers have touched their fields yet. Last … Continue reading
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Power tilling & corn planting.
My awesome neighbor offered to till my patch after he did his. He has a very nice PTO rototiller attachment to his extra heavy field mower traction engine. It creates a wonderful seedbed that is lot better than what I … Continue reading
May weeks — oh vi ah
Let nature tell you when to plant, always. Study the things around you and plant when those things without humans do, and so goes adjustment. The crimson clover is starting to shoot peak. The white clover is a cool customer. … Continue reading
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