In my family, the holiday wish list is requested from each member sometime in September and then no one is allowed to buy themselves anything they put on the list until after Christmas. It's hard to comply sometimes, especially when all they stuff I want usually goes on sale. My list consists mainly of gardening supplies, so it has become a tradition to post the wish list on the Gardenerd Blog each year. So without further adieu... ...
I had the good fortune to be introduced to Shalane Respondek and her world of LEED certified property development. She brought me in to design a vegetable garden for her new Malibu property over the summer. They were still finishing the house and major landscaping projects, so it would be awhile before we could start on the garden, but the ideas were flowing from the beginning.
I saw ...
While developing the Gardenerd Hand Care Kit, I met Sue Dwiggins. She's a blender - an aromatherapy specialist with a company called Essential Three. She and her sister happened to be in town and were helping out at Soaptopia when the owners of the shop and I were working out the details of the new product. They helped create the signature scent that is in the Gardenerd Hand Care Kit.
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It's coming upon that time of year when all the 2010 seed catalogs begin to show up in the mail. It is my opinion that seed catalogs are best reviewed in the comfort of one's own bed, with plenty of pillows around to prop them all open to one's favorite pages.
It can be overwhelming. So many different seeds to choose from, so many questions about what might grow well in your hardiness zone. Well, over the years, we've ...
Kale is good for you, but that doesn't mean everyone loves it. Now you can make something that will appeal to all members of your family. Check out this nifty recipe in this week's tip.
And so we continue with the adventures in Willits, CA during the 3-day Grow BioIntensive workshop...
The workshop took place in a most unusual location, what I can only describe as an intentional community of horse people. There were homes and stables (in fact, this is where Sea Biscuit used to live back in the day), but it was isolated from the main highway and was centered around a faith-based community gathering space where our little garden class took place.
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This doesn't exactly fall under the category of What's Growin' On, but as the urge to homestead becomes more prevalent in our community, I like to include these tidbits of culinary experimentation along with the mainstream gardening information. So, in case you were wondering what to do with that left over heavy cream in the fridge that might be too old to use but you're not sure, here's how to make butter and biscuits.
Need a good book for your winter vacation? Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle provides information for how to live locally, seasonally, and happily, while detailing her story of living off the land for a year.
I'm a self-proclaimed soap whore. Let me clarify...I love bar soap. None of that anti-bacterial frothing pump stuff for me thank you very much. I need a bar I can roll around in my hands, something that cuts through the layers of green tomato plant juice in the summer. Something that scrubs away the dirt under my nails, but leaves me feeling like I've just done something decadent for myself.
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It's been busy here, launching the new website and 2 new products for the holiday season, so blogging has taken a back seat until now. These blog entries are really my favorite things to do (besides harvesting succulent veggies while laughing in the face of commercial agriculture), and writing them gives me an excuse to venture out to new territory.
So we continue with the Grow BioIntensive workshop that I attended in the ...