Winter garden

So for the last number of years, I’ve had this garden in the backyard where the only vegetable I harvest each year is a few squash each holiday season. Like most years, I get just enough to fill out our fall table with a couple left over, later half eaten by various animals. Today’s picture

Spring is just around the corner

It is, I feel it. In fact, I’ve started thinking about what to plant this year in our long awaited garden. Just the other day I found our High Mowing Organic Seed catalog and tonight I found our Missouri Wildflowers Nursery catalog. Now while I’m going to sit down with the kids this weekend to

Citizen Scientist

With fall now here and winter perhaps on it’s way, I’m actually already thinking about spring. Yes, I know I shouldn’t live in the future but what really got me going were my recent thoughts about what to do with a yard that is all down hill. I’m also thinking about how to finally build

Back at the homefront

After struggling all summer with an overgrown lawn (and again, now that we’ve just come back from vacation), I found this article today on how to change that and you know, it’s looking really good at the moment. It’s entitled “Arid Southwest Cities’ Plea: Lose the Lawn” by Ian Lovett at the New York Times.

Second Season

When I saw this article, I knew I still had a chance and so this weekend, I’m going to give it one more chance. Here’s my inspiration, it’s entitled “Second Season Planting Offer a Second Chance at a Vegetable Garden this Year” By Ramon Gonzalez at Treehugger. Another article that is giving me a nice

Picking out seeds

While my life remains in somewhat disarray, my daughter decided to pick out seeds to plant at home on our last visit to the local hardware store and as I again worked to organize my backpack, I came across another relevant article. This one entitled “The Good Seed: Why Care about a Little Ol’ Seed”

As the weather turns

As we continue on with our warmer than usual winter with the occasional mix of freezing rain while thoughts of gardening begin to bloom, I thought I would post a couple of articles on the subject of planting zones. They’re both by Janice Lloyd at USA Today. They are “Planting Zones Shift to the North” and

What comes around goes around

Interesting how things sort of do that for me a lot. I requested a couple of books on the topic of Nature Deficit Disorder, which is also the topic of the  book I’m reading now, “The Nature Principle” by Richard Louv. In turn, the first book I requested “Birds”,  is written by the same author

Feels like spring

So okay, it’s not spring but with winter solstice behind us and the sun out the last couple of days, it reminds me of spring which in turn has gotten me to think about gardening. So with that in mind, here are a couple of nice articles on the subject of gardens. First up, there

Books imitate art (or in this case, the environment)

If you want to see a nice reuse project, check out the article on High Line Park in New York City over at Inhabitat by Jill Fehrenbacher. It’s entitled “Inhabitat Exclusive Video: The NYC High Line Opens. Like the book “The curious garden” by Peter Brown, it’s a good example of how to reuse something.