Gardening
Tour the White House Garden
Take a tour of the White House kitchen garden in this new video.
Haute Coturnix
We recently added Coturnix (aka Japanese) Quail to our backyard flock of chickens and ducks, and I’m looking forward to some little spotted eggs as soon as they get settled from the move. They aren’t too fond of us just yet, but quail are relatively easy to take care of and very efficient egg (and meat) producers.
If the Snag Fits…
In forest ecology, a snag refers to a standing, partly or completely dead tree, often missing a top or most of the smaller branches, which becomes crucial habitat for many woodland creatures. While common in the wild, snags are often removed from cities.
Growing Gratitude
As I was rushing around town before thanksgiving, I was lucky enough to catch Growing Concerns on the radio. Cecillia Nasti had a great episode on giving thanks to our planet through earthcare and wildscaping. Have a listen here at kut.org.
Turfgrass Alternatives
So you’re unhappy with how much work and water your turf grass lawn takes up, but love its function. What are the alternatives?
The Native Lawn
Many turf grass lawns occupy space that was formerly inhabited by native grasses and wildflowers, so why not restore your yard to its original state?
What is a Weed?
What is a weed but an unwanted plant? Depending on circumstance, a plant that is the bane of one man’s existence may be a boon to another. And yet we often assume that there are certain plants that are weeds and others that are not.
Slow down. Look closer. I’ve found the average untended lawn to [...]
1 Billion Hours!
I just dug up an old article from USA Today about the anti-lawn movement:
Americans mow 31 million acres of lawn every year. It takes 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours to complete the chore. And for this privilege they will spend $17.4 billion on [...]
This Lawn is Your Lawn
The folks from Kitchen Gardeners International have started a cool campaign to plant a vegetable garden on the Whitehouse lawn called Eat the View. Visit your favorite candidate’s website, get involved and put this on their radars. After what happened in San Francisco, I think the time is ripe to make this happen.
Eat the view [...]
Obligatory Fritz Haeg Post
Who’s Fritz Haeg? If you missed all of the great press he’s gotten for his Edible Estates project lately, he’s a California based architect and teacher that replaces front lawns with productive edible landscapes.
His first edible antilawn was planted in the middle of American suburbia, Salina, Kansas, in 2005, and he has since planted five [...]
Mowing Sucks
A 56-year-old man from Wisconsin has been arrested after shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn’t start. Why do we add unnecessary stress to an already stressful world by covering our personal open space with needy lawns? If only he had stopped to consider why he even had a lawn, he might have diverted that [...]
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