Home Again in the Gardens: Sweet Potatoes, Cayenne, Gingko and More!

The family has been gone for two weeks. The gardens did not skip a beat. Harvesting sweet potatoes, tomatoes, passion fruit, cayenne peppers, comfrey, gingko nuts, and St. John’s wort. The yucca is producing fibers, and the flowers continue to bloom into October. The bounty around here is miraculous. With little maintenance the natural world [...]

The Madison PDC Continues: Sue Ellen’s Farm and Troy Gardens

Maybe we don’t want to work on Maggie’s farm no more, but Sue Ellen’s name, first of all, has too many syllables, and, hey, who wouldn’t want to work in this paradise? And Troy Gardens? Acres and acres of allotments, prairie restoration, a four acre CSA, and co-housing units. Volunteers everywhere. And plenty of kids!

Dave and Katy’s Home In Ann Arbor, and a Rainbow

Bill and I stopped at the home of former students, Dave and Katy. As we proceeded afterwards along the highway this double rainbow appeared. Maybe there is “gold” at the end of the rainbow. Maybe what Dave and Katy and so many others are doing in front and back yards is the gold at the [...]

Permaculture, the Stelle Three Epochs Course, Home Again

The Three Epochs Permaculture Course is complete at Stelle. I am now on home turf and wondering how it is, with little care, over the last two weeks, that there is so much food around the house and the neighborhood that we can’t eat it all. Maybe we are finally approaching that Permaculture ideal in [...]

Transition and Permaculture

Interesting take on the whole thing. I too agree that Permaculture and Transition are at the head of the pack. Are we up to it? What else do we have to do? Can we come up with an alternative when it comes to the miasm we have created for ourselves? I understand that to be [...]