by Steve Melcher – The Father of Modern Horticulture – Liberty Hyde Bailey is one of my greatest influences and someone who I...
Category : Nature
Kade in the Kitchen: With breakfast smoothies and granola
by Kade Bentley – Breakfast ~ I take breakfast seriously. It’s the biggest meal of my day. If I’m...
Simple Sustainability: Middle Ground Purchases
by Sky Trombly – Finding a place between waste and restriction “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without!”– War...
Homestead Gardener: Mining the wintertime mind
by Derrick Gentry – Winter ponderings on goats, trees and an acre of riches Away in a manger It is mid January. The holiday...
Homestead Gardener: Making Biochar
by Derrick Gentry – Making Biochar – Earth Rise – One Wild and Precious Life – Making Biochar at Home Charcoal...
Bee Lines: Double screened bottom boards
by Sam Hall – Recently I realized that I had a five frame nuc in the bee yard. It was the last one of eight that I had made up last...
The Night Sky: January
A Messier object and Trapezium in Orion Total lunar eclipse January 20-21 Dee Sharples – Astronomers in the 1700s searched the...
Dragonfly Tales: Case of the mistaken goatsucker
by Steve Melcher – “Goatsucker!” came a Highlander’s shout from an elderly birder in the back of the bus. We all looked...
Simple Sustainability: 4 Tenets of Minimalist Shopping
By Sky Trombly – It might seem counter-intuitive for an aspiring minimalist to write about shopping. However, minimalists do shop...
The Village Gardener: Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
By Georgeanne Vyverberg – Here it is, the middle of the last month of the year. Holiday season is in full swing and the first seed...