Here’s a recent article (well, I wrote it several months ago) that I wrote that was featured in the newest March Hare, Dancing Rabbit’s quarterly newsletter. It touches upon my plans and hopes and dreams of my food future at Dancing Rabbit, and how I’d like to see food culture grow and develop. Here ya [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gardening’
Sheet mulching keyhole garden beds
I think I’m done making my sheet mulched garden beds. I say “I think” because I may want to make up a couple additional beds in the near future, but I have everything complete that was priority.
I used the sheet mulching method of creating these garden beds. That means I did not dig into the [...]
How to build a recycled pallet compost bin
Oftentimes, people here at Dancing Rabbit build compost bins out of recycled shipping pallets for their gardens. Shipping pallets can be had for free from many sources – stores, warehouses… anywhere and everywhere that receives large shipments.
They are easy to build and cost next to nothing. You can make a very simple three-sided design or [...]
Gardening seasons begins: making a garden bed
Today was in the 50s, and by Monday it will be 70 degrees. I am excited, because I imagine I’ll be outside all day the next three days, completing my exterior finish earthen plaster on my house, and doing more gardening work.
I have just barely begun with gardening. Today I hauled three wheelbarrows full of [...]
Spring creeps closer
Spring is creeping closer to reality. Green grass is starting to poke through the soil, and today we had our first major thunderstorm and flash flood of the season. The creek to the north of the village went way over its banks, and our neighbor’s pasture is now totally flooded. I’ve never actually seen it [...]
Letting permaculture design the home and garden
Lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my ‘warren’ (read: my plot of space here at Dancing Rabbit). It’s something like 2500 square feet. With all that I want to do, the space is feeling smaller and smaller.
First, there’s the cob house, which takes up 360 of those square feet or so, positioned in [...]
