Small scale permaculture nursery in Maine, education enthusiast, and usually verbose.
We do wood chip paths and the weedy growth gets chopped up a bit and tossed on the paths. We’ll weed like that all season - walking on the paths break everything down further as we go. If the winter is wet and warm we’ll use the paths as a fertilizing mulch the following year. If winter is cold and relatively dry we’ll use it after another year
I don’t like rough labor … but I do like weight lifting
This is something either of my brothers could have written. Different guys are just into different things, don’t let that hold you back from being you, my dude
Planting perennials & daydreaming about next year’s veggie layout and rotation. Hearing “aren’t your feet cold?” because I wear sandals until there’s snow on the ground
That’s actually the handle for holding it while you eat. Far fewer stringy bits get in the way if you pinch the bottom of it and split the peel from that end
Ceanothus americanus produces the same compounds as C. sinensis, just without the caffeine. You can even make green or black teas with it depending on whether you oxidize the leaves or not.
🥰 it’s just the two of us today so we’re playing in the dirt pulling strawberry runners for markets this weekend
“Campbell’s admission that it committed these violations will speed this case toward a trial that will decide what steps the company must take to curb its pollution and how large a civil penalty should be imposed,”
1.5 times their gross annual profit average over the timeframe, per infraction, ought to do it. Oh. And jail time for anyone who knew and didn’t report it, for aiding and abetting a conspiracy to commit the crime.
I’d love it if something like this existed around me, but I’d settle for never being asked “oh did mom get a day off” ever again (for context, I’m a stay-at-home dad and primary caregiver). I get why the stereotype exists but it’s less than helpful to shame the dads who are out doing things with their kids.
There are several groups around that are specifically for moms, dads excluded, and I just wish there were more avenues for me to help my daughter socialize in age appropriate groups
But that’s how I remember to Rest, Ice, Compress, and Elevate injuries
Are these perennial flowers we’re talking about? Leave the stems attached until the birds in your area have eaten the seeds so they fare better over the winter. Seed heads will also catch snow and ice to create “winter interest” as it’s called in landscaping circles, giving your garden something pretty to look at even in the depths of winter. Those upright stems will also provide critical habitat for insects - they can provide that habitat if they’re cut and left whole on the ground but will become inaccessible if you get an early snow that lingers.
The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation by Dirr and Heuser
Grow a Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph
Mushi-shi. Incredibly beautiful art and wonderfully written stories about a guy who travels the countryside, using research and nonviolent methods to resolve issues between humans and the spirit creatures known as Mushi
We helped build the seed library at our town’s library and volunteer at the community garden there as well. This has put us in touch with other growers in the area and we’ve been talking up mutual aid networks and sharing (and receiving) food in that group and with our neighbors. We barter plants with a nearby guy who grows culinary mushrooms, eggs with the neighbors who hunt, and take hikes with the neighbor who’s been foraging wild mushies for decades
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Will give you this picture of me holding a goat
What color is the pith (center of the stem)? Porcelain berry is white and grape should be brown in older stems
Poaceae is essential to the survival of a vast number of bird, insect, and mammal species, people are just using it incorrectly
Changed up my whole approach to a writing project - I’m finally making progress again and being a little less down on myself as a result.