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I cruise Facebook in the evenings sometimes during my downtime. There’s a ton of good information there and I get to interact with people from the comfort of my own home like a true introvert should. I often see a post there that really catches my attention and gets me excited. So when several of you posted a . . . → Read More: Truly…and I Mean Truly Hacking a Garden This week’s exercise with Jackson in the garden was sowing pea seeds. Its always great when you explain the results. Jackson loves peas and has since he was very young. He’s also spent quite a time planting them with me and harvesting them with me (and shelling them with his mama). In fact, the “Grow” . . . → Read More: Gardening With Children – Sowing Seeds (Literally and Figuratively) Working with children and getting them interested in gardening is a passion of mine. Its not only something that I want to work with my son with this year but I’d like to share my experiences in the hope that I can help others in their efforts. So this is the first post in what . . . → Read More: Gardening With Children – Starting Seeds It might seem as basic and obvious as saying to someone use the sunny areas but a lot of us look at shady areas as wasted areas. We don’t want to plant a garden there. We don’t want to put livestock there. But why? First of all there’s the myth of full sun. Full . . . → Read More: Episode 155 Gardening in the Shade This is a post about self-sufficiency and about minimalism and a million more things. But mostly this is a post about following what you know to be right in your heart and not just knowing the right path but walking it. In 1854 a man named Henry David Thoreau wrote a book called Walden: A Life in . . . → Read More: Thoreau and He is More Relevant Than Ever It seems like barely a week goes by when I don’t receive an email from someone telling me about how gardening has pulled them through a tough time in their life. And I don’t mean pulled through just in the sense that it provided food but rather a cheap and very effective form of therapy. . . . → Read More: Its About More Than Just Growing Food Note: I screwed up the production of the first 6 minutes of today’s show. At some point I will come back in and fix this. In the meantime the first 6 minutes or so repeats one time. Sorry! Sorry I don’t have comprehensive notes because this episode is based on an article I’m still trying . . . → Read More: Episode 133 Plant Identification Made Easy |
 
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