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Frog ponds, bee hotels, food for bees and beneficials, wildlife-friendly gardens, dealing with critters, learning to share…

08/13/202408/14/2024Barb Allen

A Grand New Adventure

07/06/201807/06/2018Barb Allen

Listening for a Who…

07/05/201807/04/2018Barb Allen

What does it mean?…

02/09/201802/09/2018Barb Allen

Growing Up in the Age of Fear

01/17/201801/17/2018Barb Allen

Winter Walks

01/08/201808/16/2024Barb Allen

The Lost Art of Listening

Kiwi arbor
09/21/201609/22/2016Barb Allen

Rats, moles and yellow jackets, Yikes!

07/08/201607/08/2016Barb Allen

Do we really want a perfect garden?

Flowering Quince
10/22/201510/22/2015Barb Allen

Nature’s Grace and Goodwill

Prairie Coneflower closeup
10/18/201510/18/2015Barb Allen

Playing outside…

Fall Blueberry leaves and comfrey
10/17/201510/17/2015Barb Allen

Awakening to our Role…

Wild Azaleas by our creek
10/08/201508/16/2024Barb Allen

Understanding “Mindfulness”…

Scarlet runner beans growing next to the entry gate
10/03/201510/03/2015Barb Allen

Foraging for Dinner…

Frog pond, hugel mound and chairs.
09/30/201509/30/2015Barb Allen

Building a “Natural” Frog Pond

Rain Garden - madrone retaining wall
09/20/201509/28/2015Barb Allen

Why Everyone Should Build a Rain Garden

turkeytail fungus
09/07/201509/07/2015Barb Allen

Nature Rx

09/05/201509/07/2015Barb Allen

Create a Holistic Garden

Honeycrisp apples getting ripe on tree
08/28/201508/28/2015Barb Allen

Everything changes…

08/28/201508/30/2015Barb Allen

Things I’m Pretty Sure About…

08/21/201508/29/2015Barb Allen

Soul Food

08/21/201508/28/2015Barb Allen

A Garden to just BE in…

Recent Posts

  • A Grand New Adventure
  • 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…
  • Things I’m Pretty Sure About…
  • Urine for a surprise! (sorry about that…)
  • Soul Food
  • A Garden to just BE in…
  • Kale, Collards, and Chard, Oh My!

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