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Sheet Mulch: Creating Rich Soil Without Tilling
Read MoreHave you ever dug a hole on a summer day in clay soil? The sun bakes your back as you strike your shovel to the ground. It seems like instead…
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Growing Nasturtiums: Champion of the Edible Flowers
Read MoreI first met nasturtiums (Tropaeolum majus) growing wildly in an abandoned park. They had no water and no love but their lily-pad leaves blanketed the ground and their vibrant flowers…
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What I Love About Native Plants and Can’t Stand About Native Plant People
Read MoreThese thistles were not the ones I was used to, not the small ones that sneak through your socks when you venture off the hiking trail. These thistles were taller…
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Why the Fight Over the Most Sustainable Diet is Missing the Point
Read MoreThe food we eat, whether it is bacon or tofu, is based on an ideology of control of the land. All food has blood on it. But, it doesn’t have…
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Gardening With Nature: How to Grow a Cover Crop
Read MorePlants greedily soak up soil nutrients, leaving the soil weak and malnourished, that is how we tend to view it. But, look at a natural ecosystem. There are plants that…
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What I’m Reading: Teaming With Microbes
Read MoreThere is a world beneath your feet, or, if you avoid stepping on your garden soil, beneath your hands. Bacteria hide from hungry protozoa in tiny soil pores the protozoa…
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Inviting in the Bugs: 11 Plants to Increase Garden Diversity
Read MoreThe Good, the bad and the ugly. Gardeners talk about bugs like they are characters in a Western; ladybugs in a white hat, aphids in black. Ecology, however, is much…
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What I’m Reading: The Urban Homestead
Read MoreThere is a movement happening in America’s cities. A movement of people who map edible trees in their neighborhoods and eat weeds growing from cracks in the sidewalk. These people…
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The Tools of Permaculture: A Guide to Permaculture Techniques
Read MoreThis is the third part in my permaculture series. Check out Part I: The Permaculture Principles and Part II: A History of Permaculture and its Movers and Shakers. Permaculture is…
