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Mason Bees… A quick overview
I just read an interesting article in the March/April edition of Urban Farm Magazine on Mason Bees. I just started a subscription to this magazine. Overall, it is a pretty entertaining read. There are...
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Predatory Gastropods… aka Carnivorous Snails and Slugs
I struggled with slugs in my garden this Winter. I live in a mild weather location, an island in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. Our Winters are chilly but not cold. We have no snow, but we...
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Seventy Distinctive Mushrooms (Part Two: 11-20)
As I discussed in my recent article, Fighting Fungophobia (or Mycophobia) …the fear of mushrooms, here is a list of 70 Distinctive Mushrooms. Seventy Distinctive Mushrooms (Part One: 1-10) Seventy...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Birding for Permaculturists
I am an amateur naturalist. I absolutely love nature. I love being in the natural world. I love studying nature and all the sciences encompassing and surrounding it. I love that I am still mesmerized...
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Designing A Custom Native Plant List
The first Permaculture Ethic is Earth Care. This can be realized in many different ways depending on appropriate context. Personally, as my family is preparing for our move to the farm, I have been in...
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Spiders Is Good!
Spiderweb I don’t quote movies often, but I occasionally will repeat a random quote from a random movie, Fletch Lives. One character, Calculus Entropy (an undercover FBI agent) meets Chevy Chase in a...
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Birding with My Daughter
I officially went birding for the first time with my 5 year-old daughter. I personally love birding (see my previous article on The Benefits of Birding for Permaculturists). I am not naive enough to...
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How a Newt Matters
It is hard to capture in words the exact feelings I have about an amphibian. We all have something… or maybe we had something, in the past sense. There were certain things or people or places that...
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Birdhouse Gourds!
Also known as Calabash or Bottle Gourds, Lagenaria siceraria are hardshelled gourds have been used for multiple purposes around the world. Many varieties are edible: edible fruit, edible seeds, edible...
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Wildlife at the Farm
We recently had some of our ducks and geese killed overnight. This happened last year as well. But we were never able to determine who the culprit was… fox, coyote, raccoon, opossum, owl? I had found...
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