Author: Barb Allen
Meditation, permaculture, gardening, walking in the woods, writing, chi gung, family, friends, growing food...
Making Your Own Vinegar With Fruit Scraps
Plant Intelligence
Epiphany!
A Great Solution to Urine Collecting
Side Effects of Soil Building – who knew?
Heart Breathing with a Smile
Wildfire in our own backyard…
Naturalized…
Listening for a Who…
What does it mean?…
Creating free food for my hens…a successful experiment.
Bug-a-boo….
Evergreen Edibles for a Temperate Climate
Inspiration for the small acts of love…
The Art of Shuffling Plants Around…
Better Living Through Chemistry?
Righteous Come-uppance!
Fire Cider… who knew?!
Drawdown — The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
The Mystery of Plastic bags…
Growing Up in the Age of Fear
Fermenting with wild things….
Old age and Maple Trees…
Alternative Edible Leaves of Winter…
Winter Walks
A few pictures from last years garden…
The Lost Art of Listening
You Have a Choice
Thinking Holistically
What NOT to plant in next years garden!
Sharing our garden joys…
Five Steps Toward an Easy Care Garden
This and That… part two!
This and That…part one
A Very Permaculturey, Sustainable thing…
What is Metta all about?
Facing the Monster in my Closet…
On Busyness…
Happy imaginings…
In Times of Dread…..
A Chronicle of Death, Life and Vegetables…
The Frog Pond – Second year…
Update on Rats – and End of Season Reflections
Rats, moles and yellow jackets, Yikes!
Designing a Holistic Garden – Part Four
Looking Up
Designing a Holistic Garden – Part Three
Designing a Holistic Garden – Part Two
Designing a Holistic Garden
A Fruitful Succession
Five Reasons to Create an Alfalfa Patch
Rats in the Hen House!
Do we really want a perfect garden?
My Love Affair with Kale
The Great Hugel-berm!
Oca, Mashua and Yacon
The Beauty of Edibles
Using Edibles in Your Landscape
A Simple Garbage Can Compost System
Nature’s Grace and Goodwill
October charm…
Playing outside…
Awakening to our Role…
Feeding your mind…
Understanding “Mindfulness”…
A Chickadee’s Guide To Gardening By Douglas W. Tallamy
Foraging for Dinner…
Building a “Natural” Frog Pond
Azolla – the wonder weed…
Why Everyone Should Build a Rain Garden
Nature Rx
The Unsung Gift of the Garden
Create a Holistic Garden
Mini Modified Hugel Bed
Rescuing Beans from the Dreaded Spider Mite
The Wonders Of Baking Soda!
Feeding my chickens…
Everything changes…
The Holistic Garden 