One thing about making a big change in your life is that there is still all this old stuff. While I’d like to spend most of my time on my terrific new forest garden project, things get in the way.
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The Gigantic leaf pile
We make a Giant leaf pile and think about the many benefits. Also, we winterize more fruits.
First official step: a class
I have been dabbling in growing food for many years. Our yard, which is about 1/3 of an acre, has been gradually converted into a motley collection of fruit and vegetables. There’s the ramps, fiddleheads, and mushrooms back in the “woods”; the bees under the flowering cherry; the strawberries, currants, apples, sour cherries, raspberries, blackberries,Continue reading “First official step: a class”
Community connecting
I go to a Boston Food Forest Coalition Meetup, mulch berries, and talk about (positive) global change.
Why I want to be a farmer
We all eat. In fact, producing food is humanity’s largest endeavor. Every year, we produce almost ten trillion pounds of food — vegetables, fruits grains, meat, fish, mushrooms, eggs… It swamps other huge industries like cars and trucks, of which we produce a mere 400 billion pounds per year. According to Toensmeier in The CarbonContinue reading “Why I want to be a farmer”
Putting blueberries and asparagus to bed
Garden walk through and winterizing blueberries and asparagus with mulch and protection.
