I’ve been garden-less for the past two years and wanted to put together an easy DIY garden bed. So in true fashion, I started looking into MANY different designs: RootSimple‘s strawbale raised bed was surely on my mind. They used strawbales and mixed manure with lots of nitrogen. The idea seems great and the results […]
I’ve been out of the loop for a while. Life has kept me busy. Just got back from a trip across the southern part of the country and back. I am feeling revived and inspired to get many new projects ready in 2014. Now for the William Coperthwaite post: In recent days I’ve come across […]
I was lucky enough to catch a community building talk with Mark Lakeman recently. It really inspired me to engage more with my community, specially to start
I was recently mentioning this plant to a friend and thought I would pull this picture up you all. This Brussels Sprout was grown in early 2010 in Silverlake, Ca. I’m still not sure what caused this plant to bare such a monstrous stalk and would love to hear your experiences with freaky plants :)
I’ve been in the process of designing my new garden. Being that we’ve been moving every year for the past three, it’s been hard to get a garden established. I’ve tried the traditional raised bed design, also the more hybrid approach. Not to long ago I saw a post on Root Simple’s page about a […]
Found these and many more, still functional, antique tools at The Colony swap meet in Missouri. If I wasn’t flying back with a full backpack, I would provably had given some of these a new home. I have been prone to buying older more dependable tools than their newer, shinier counterparts. They have withstood the […]