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Seven Ways to Dispose of Garden Weeds

Seven Ways to Dispose of Garden Weeds

After using a weeding hoe, which entails slicing weeds off just below the surface, here are ways you can dispose of them: 1. Cut and Leave: Let them decompose where they fell. This is the easiest and my primary method. 2. Hot Piles: Rake them into a pile, mixed with

Third Places Aren't Enough: On Community Gardens

Third Places Aren't Enough: On Community Gardens

Sarah Soltis at Public Discourse

I Garden by Accident

I Garden by Accident

With a "kale kicker" application

The Full Agrarian Letter

The Full Agrarian Letter

Professor Michael Jordan's Final Exam Letter to his Students Professor Michael Jordan saw last week's post. He graciously provided me the original, full letter, with this note: I taught a course on “The Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization” back in 1999, and while students were taking

Community Gardens

Community Gardens

This is an odd little piece. The author applauds gardening because it is a great example of Joseph Pieper's "active leisure." That's a great observation. But she puts it in the context of community gardens, which, the author says, lead people to sharing produce,

Toad Houses

Toad Houses

I told a friend about my huge slug and bug problem this year. He recommended I attract toads to my garden. He said they'd crush the slug population quickly. I stored the advice away, then I ran across someone on the Internet enthusing about garden toads and how

How Much Garden Would You Need to Live?

How Much Garden Would You Need to Live?

From Life Hacker

Doomers May Have One Point: Food Production

Doomers May Have One Point: Food Production

Every inch of me resists the doom-and-gloomers. I think it's because I get the sense that this syllogism drives them: doomers are serious. Serious people should rule. Therefore, doomers should rule. At the very least, doomers think they should tell other people what to do. Doomers, after all,

How I Use the Gardening Blockchain Crypto-Johnson Rod Algorithm to Deal with the Modern World

How I Use the Gardening Blockchain Crypto-Johnson Rod Algorithm to Deal with the Modern World

Confused and Contented in the Garden

Free Seeds . . . at Your Public Library?

Free Seeds . . . at Your Public Library?

From Civil Eats.