I have lived a very blessed life, not an easy life or a simple one or filled with all that I imagined or dreamed while I was growing up. But still I am blessed. My mother used to tell me “If you wake up breathing in the morning it’s a GOOD day!” She died much [...]
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“The gods must think we’re crazy!”
What a delightful story from Kitchen Gardeners International that warmed the seedlings in my straw bale garden when I read it to them. From Roger Doiron, comes this timely piece about a rather unusual but very “outrageous garden” in Berlin, Germany. With not one tilled inch to be found. (Now comes the part where I [...]
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It ain’t over….till the prickly pear ripens.
Ahhhh! September….the time of year when gardens are blooming but the humans are not. Bad combination. Our community garden group is going through that phase right now: back to school for the kids, end of summer and last minute vacations, starting new jobs. There is always something to deter us in these hot days from [...]
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Lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer…
I love this time of year. Looking back over our shoulders at where we’ve been the last three to four months, how could we not be amazed by the shape and size of all that is growing in our gardens. Even the hailstorm that ripped the plants to shreds last month couldn’t destroy its beauty. [...]
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A Cure for the Gulf Coast Blues
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.- Kahlil Gibran Hard these days not to feel either hopeless and depressed or so outraged and disgusted you consider creating open season on the management of BP Oil. Yeah, been there myself. What does [...]
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Amazing ways to honor Big Momma!
It’s been an intensely painful week personally, trying to deal with so much human-induced abuse to this amazing planet and to all of her creatures, including humans. And while some days all I can do is walk by the river and weep, I’ve received some truly inspiring ideas recently that are happening right in our [...]
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It’s March: we’re late, we’re late!
Welcome to spring, everyone! And thanks for re-joining the blog after my winter’s pause. More info is coming on the program in Haiti with some good news for a change at a later date. For now it’s been typical spring in Albuquerque: snow, rain, wind, sunshine, heat, more wind. I hope you already have peas [...]
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For Haiti’s Sake: A Permaculture Relief Corps
Permaculture is a design system based on ethics and principles which can be used to establish, design, manage and improve all efforts made by individuals, households and communities towards a sustainable future. There is a growing buzz on the internet and social networking systems about a “different” kind of aid effort: a Permaculture relief corps. [...]
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New Year, New Moon and Haiti
As I was writing this last week, I was feeling the excitement of a book nearly completed, of a Youtube video on ‘outrageous gardening’ being edited, of all the support I receive on nearly a daily basis from friends, family, colleagues and the amazing women of my personal sisterhood collective. I was ready to announce [...]
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An end to hunger and poverty: don’t doubt!
“It is important for people to realize that we can make progress against world hunger, that world hunger is not hopeless. The worst enemy is apathy.” – Reverend David Beckmann And sealed within apathy is the feeling of helplessness with a smattering of “it will always be this way” thrown at us on a daily [...]
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