Many things strike me as metaphorical. The idea of Zombie Apocalypse, even exploited by the Center For Disease Control, is, I believe, a metaphor for people who refuse to look at the economic situation we are currently in. They also refuse to consider the ramifications of it. State governments go broke, the Federal government can’t [...]
Bindweed must die. But bindweed is a great survivor. It’s very aggressive and invasive and winds around plants, choking them to death. It’s a garden menace. So I must apply my best strategies, knowing what I know. Bindweed comes up from a mother plant, the roots of which can be as deep as 30 feet [...]
My potatoes might be just fine. Mom sent me potato bags. They’re the size of 5-gallon buckets, made of some kind of newfangled polymer. You fill them with dirt and stick your potato starts in. Due to our location in a desiccating wind tunnel I mulch compulsively, which might seem counter-productive because I have to [...]
In our present culture the idea of doing something smaller, so as to do it better, is an alien idea. Everybody wants to “go bigger”. Bigger, or outsized from the scale of nature, is not better. Growing acres of nothing but corn or soybeans is not better. It’s just bigger. You have lots more food [...]
Nature is sometimes gentle, sometimes hard, and wields both forces in infinite wisdom. Students and stewards of Nature seek to emulate Her, but we have limited wisdom. We make mistakes. Sometimes this hurts. This morning wasn’t hard. Just a reminder how hard it can be. Hardening off seedlings is a process of gradually acclimating them [...]
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Robbie interviews Glenn Wilson from EcoTech Institute about educational opportunities in the green and clean energy fields, and Betty Heid from Green Job Outsourcing Brokers regarding Denver Green Jobs. Go here to see them, and to catch up on all of her Denver Green Streets TV interviews.
Despite all my fancy and expensive classes, I still have no idea how to compost animal poo. It’s not easy information to dig up. But it is that time of year to clean out the chicken run. THAT I know how to dig up. I’m taking a wild guess and reducing my risk by containing [...]
…in the latest issue of Denver Green Streets Magazine. Here…