the annual garden area is our current food source as the food forest develops into production. despite dry summers, raise beds allow for gopher protection and keep the winter plantings out of the swamp like conditions that winter rains create.…
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frost date
it’s april 5th and there is frost on the ground. good thing I’m so late in building the beds and putting out seed. the predicted date is May twelfth for 2014. thirdly-seven days to go. soil temps and row covers…
new blue berries
before I left for work I popped out to check on the new blue berries. surrounded by a makeshift deer fence they seem to be enjoying the rain. three could produce berries this year. but I’m ahead of myself. last…
the weekend warrior finds a weekend PDC
i’m excited! Cathe’ Fish, a local permacultureist and master gardener, is offering a Permaculture Design Course that I can attend. i needed the timing, the price and the local to be just about perfect in order to pull off a…
real frost
7:02 am – this morning was the first real frost of the season. the deck was white with it. the orchard grass sparkled in the early morning sunlight. the branches and logs in the future huglekulture twinkled, mocking me for…
the green waste adventure
i’ve finally made contacted with some local landscape maintenance companies; two of them! there brush prunings, grass clippings, leaf rackings and the likes will be arriving at my house in the next week. the plan is to mulch the orchard…
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when bees arrive
the big event of april the bees arrived on Sunday the 14th. the hardware store ordered them for me along with everyone else. they arrived on a flat bed truck from a town about 3 hours away. i picked them…
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