
Author: Barb Allen
Meditation, permaculture, gardening, walking in the woods, writing, chi gung, family, friends, growing food...


The Coronation

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…
