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Our new front yard, part 4: a digression on the new paradigm

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Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening, Miscellaneous
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...I cast blame around, against myself for being a poor gardener, against the soil, against the drought, against the nursery which sold the plant, against the plant itself. In all cases, though, I’m considering the plant as an isolated individual, and I’m evaluating its success or failure in myopic terms. Now, I’m not a botanist or any other kind of “ist” and I sometimes I suspect all I know about plants would fit in a thimble. Yet I don’t think that...

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Saturday Tweets: Taking Back the Wheel

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Saturday Linkages
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...18 Assessment of Current Practices of Organic Farmers Regarding Biological Soil Amendments of Animal Origin in a Multi-regional US Study #Organic #FoodSafety #UCDavis @piresalda1 @micheletjay @ucdavisvetmed @ucanr @wifss @OrganicCenter @OrganicTrade https://t.co/D4xPwUqqBy pic.twitter.com/8STfDJSuHl — IIFH (@UCDavisIIFH) September 8, 2018 “Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel, and need no special parking facil...

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A Painful Beekeeping Lesson

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Animals, Bees
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...and lit palm trees on fire. Unfortunately for me, the deluge softened the soil underneath one of the legs of one of my beehives causing it to fall over and knock over another hive. I didn’t discover this situation until 7 p.m. as it was getting dark. Kelly was out of town and I was alone in the backyard staring at a jumble of bee boxes. Here’s what I should have done: Take a deep breath. Pause, and assess the situation. Come up with a plan. Gathe...

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