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Everyone Wins
As Summer wanes, I’m appreciating that I was able to achieve my primary goal for the season: mow less. By giving the clover freedom to grow, not only has this meant less labor for me, but the bees have been loving all of the pollen-laden flowers. Hopefully next season I will reap the rewards of…
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The Roselle Forest of My Dreams
I couldn’t wait to begin succession sowing roselle seeds this season. I wanted a HUGE roselle patch that felt like a roselle forest😍. I quadrupled the space dedicated to roselle this Summer. I should have fruit at any moment, but in the meantime I’m enjoying walking around the roselle forest of my dreams🥰. Take a…
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Free Moringa Seeds!
To be a keeper of seed comes with many responsibilities, including doing one’s best to facilitate the continuation of a plant’s lineage. That is, not just SAVING/STORING the seed, but SOWING the seed. I have already shared my fascination with the moringa tree here. Many believe broader cultivation of moringa (the “tree of life”) could…
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“Trash Trees”
It feels like yesterday I was writing about my Summer intentions. Somehow Summer is now almost over. Time is sure moving; whether we are or not. My compost piles have been static for months, as it’s too hot outside to be bothered with shoveling that amount of material every week. As the organic matter breaks…
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Jocote Harvest
My Summer propagation of jocote (& many other fruit) trees is still underway. Thankfully, this Summer has brought a bigger jocote harvest than last year. Harvest some of the sweet fruit with me in the video below.
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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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