The first gift from my husband was a pair of hockey skates. I was so in love at the time, that although a weird gift since I didn’t really skate or play hockey, he thought of me, so that was awesome. My second gift was a chainsaw, and I was still so in love at…
Tag: gardening
Phytoremediation here we come!
We found that some of the wood containers in one section of our garden might have been leaching something into our soil and plants that I don’t want to have around. Our garden has been chemical free for almost 16 years now and I would like to keep it that way. So first off my…
a green night …
Sundays are my big work day at our facility, puppy play groups and classes for almost ten hours. Super fun day, lots of love, lots of great work, but not a chance of touching my garden until way after four in the afternoon. It is a quarter to ten at night right now, that is…
an early harvest of sorts …
Saturdays are my get up super early, in the wee hours of the morning, go set up our booth at the farmers market (I’m primarily the setter upper, the rest of the family sells), and then come home and garden until mid afternoon. My Saturdays do not suck. Today I had a feeling that the…
seeds and dogs and and and …
I get so excited in the mornings during gardening season. To water or not? To check the soil or pull weeds? Eat some raspberries when passing by, nibble on some sweet basil, eat some more raspberries while I look for my dogs toys that must be in the yard someplace? Picking some cucumbers, parsley, and a…
growing your own tap root …
I’ve lived on four continents and have worked in six countries. Where I am right now for sure does not suck, it is gorgeous, but I seriously doubt that it is my resting place. There have been some places that felt like home from the moment I touched the ground, and I didn’t have to try…
sometimes, it’s best to be barefoot and move the hoses yourself
I have a 1/4 acre garden. Not ginormous by any means, but not small either. When you consider that this garden feeds my entire family of four humans for 6 months out of the year, it kind of puts things into perspective though. Small but serious gardeners. We have been ‘bio dynamic’ gardeners for over…
Dogs and Garden Pollinators
We spend almost all of our days in the garden once the last snow has melted into the earth. My children and dogs have grown up in this environment, and I think look forward to this season as much as me. This year we have a tremendous amount of pollinators in our grass. We’ve never…
What I’ve learned about dog training from Jacques Pepin
For me it is all the same. We do different things at different times, but it is all part of the greater whole in my opinion. Whether I am cooking, gardening, working with clay, training my dogs, reading about 14th century concubines, hiking, or watching a good movie, or what ever, it’s life, it’s part of me,…
sky smoke and water
Well for some reason my dogs and I woke up earlier than usual, la madrugada (the wee hours of the morning before dawn). It could be that our neighbors little chicks are turning out to NOT be hens, but rather roosters. I actually don’t mind waking up and hearing roosters, or song birds, I really…
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