by Daisy | Apr 7, 2014 | Garden, Permaculture
In permaculture, fruit tree guilds are a way of creating a miniature sustainable ecosystem in your yard. Instead of sticking a fruit tree in the ground in the middle of a field and watering and fertilizing and spraying it conventionally, a guild is humans mimicking...
by Daisy | Apr 1, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
Today I collected all the gloves, mittens, wooly caps and scarves into a pile on the floor. There they lay in a mismatched jumble of color, style, and size. I picked them up as best as I could in one armful and carried them, less a few escapees, to the washing...