Santa was very good to me this year. I got the Worm Factory that I wished for, and we couldn’t wait to move our worms to their new home. My husband and I
carefully read through the instructions that were included with the Factory and found it very informative – above and beyond the usual information that you might see in a vermiculture
pamphlet.
We assembled the unit, and then moved on …
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 …
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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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 …
For those who don’t know, Gardenerd.com has partnered with School Nutrition Plus and the Woolly Pocket Company to install Woolly Pocket wall vegetable gardens in schools throughout Los Angeles and Arizona.
Makeshift rain barrels at the ready. See a few options to build on.
It’s been busy these last few months. It seems that everyone wants a garden, and I’m happy to help.
Today I helped a family in Corona Del Mar to plant a garden in a small space in their back yard. The space was occupied with a couple of recently planted fruit trees that weren’t yet established, and some shrubs. After measuring the space and making some suggestions for plant removal, we were on our way….