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Just Do It
This is your sign that the thing that won’t let you go; that thing you can’t stop thinking or dreaming about You should totally do it! You don’t have to know what you’re doing. You’ll figure it out along the way. Do it scared. There will never be a better time. Time is what we’re
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Nature’s Nectar
My intention was to slow down a bit during the Summer heat, but somehow I keep adding projects🤡 On days like the one featured in the below video, when I’m only a couple hours into work & have already drenched my clothes in sweat, I might think to myself, “I could be anywhere else, but…why😎?”
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Tree Cloning is My New Favorite Thing
I can, in fact, confirm- air layering is MAGIC✨! Only a short couple months ago- on a mission to increase my tree crops- I made my first attempt at air layering. I’m proud to say that the jocote air layers were a spectacular success🙌🏾. I can’t articulate the feeling of opening a tin foil wrapped
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Wet & Happy (mostly the plants, but sometimes me too)
You might be a farmer if instead of cursing the (almost) daily rains like many, you welcome working in the rain for the cool temperature it brings & for Nature generously taking one thing off the to-do list: plant watering! For months it felt like the rains would never come, but here we are again
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Wild Black Soldier Flies Join the Crew
So far the worms seem unbothered by the heat. They continue to eat through pounds & pounds of food scraps every week & are rapidly multiplying. What I didn’t expect to also be multiplying in my worm sanctuary are the huge (for a fly), wild, black soldier flies😳. Each week when I open the sanctuary
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Furry Nemesis
As a kid, I thought my Granddad was cruel for shooting at the cute squirrels with his BB gun to run them away from his garden. I have to say, I understand it now. Not long after I completed my many fruit tree air layers, the squirrels came through & shredded the foil wrapped parcels
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Drink Your Greens
It’ll be months still before I have any roselle fruits, but that won’t stop me from reaping all of the benefits of roselle season. The leaves are absolutely delicious when used like spinach. Now I can say that- like spinach- they make a great addition to a smoothie too. I share the process in the
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Active Composting Weather Nearing Its End
Sure, I could just mow the grass/“weeds,” but it’s far more useful to add the nitrogen rich material to my compost piles. Instead of using a machine to chop the grass/”weeds” down & leave them to decompose on the ground, I do what I’ve come to call “hand mowing.” It’s basically weeding, but over
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A Spirit Visit?
Recently while looking for branches to air layer on the mango tree planted by my great grandfather many decades ago, I stopped in my tracks when I noticed several vines of “jumbee” (pronounced ‘joom-bee’) hanging from the ancient tree. Jumbee/jumbie beads, also known as rosary peas, were introduced to me decades ago by my Caribbean
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Air Layering or…Magic
Following behind Granddad in the garden on any given day, you’d be likely to look up & catch a glimmer of the sun reflecting from a tin foil covered tree branch. I asked him once why we were wrapping the trees in tin foil. He said, “We’re making new trees, Sweets!” I couldn’t understand how
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