Misadventures in No ‘Poo

Ever since I stopped using shampoo, I’ve tried several different approaches to having presentable hair: apple cider vinegar rinses, brushing it out with a natural bristle brush, and essential oil-baking soda scrubs. After giving up on baking soda after hearing...

Transformer Oil Spill Update 2015

  If you’ve been following the saga of the transformer oil spill in my garden, there have been a few developments since last I wrote on this topic. If you haven’t heard about it and would like to know what I’m referring to, you can read about it...

Iris Time With Chickens

Another overnight rain. The garden slurped it up with gusto. Especially in the spring, when if it rains, it pours, I’m reminded of the value of raised beds, whether in boxes or in rows. Nothing gets submerged in puddles, nothing gets washed to oblivion, no...

April Garden Tour 2015

When the weather forecast was for thunderstorms again last night with the possibility of hail and damaging winds, I feared for my garden. Particularly the tall-necked, tender petals of the bearded iris. And of course I paled at the thought of hail tearing into the...