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Too Many Spruce–? 10 Jul 2012 | 03:28 am
I’ll never look at my garden the same way again. Only a few pages into Sue Reed’s Energy-Wise Landscape Design: A New Approach for your Home and Garden (New Society Press, 2010) I started glancing ar...
So—What’s wrong with lawns? Podcast #34 15 May 2012 | 05:54 pm
The Back Story I grew up in an apartment in Manhattan, so anything green seemed natural to me. It’s only much more recently that I’ve come to see lawns as man-made objects imposed on the environment—...
So—What’s wrong with lawns? Podcast #34 15 May 2012 | 01:54 pm
The Back Story I grew up in an apartment in Manhattan, so anything green seemed natural to me. It’s only much more recently that I’ve come to see lawns as man-made objects imposed on the environment—o...
A Farmer’s Story – podcast #33 8 May 2012 | 08:57 am
Overview source: http://atinadiffley.com/bio/ This is a conversation with Atina Diffley about the loss of one organic farm to development and the fight to protect its replacement from an oil pipelin...
A Farmer’s Story – podcast #33 8 May 2012 | 04:57 am
Overview This is a conversation with Atina Diffley about the loss of one organic farm to development and the fight to protect its replacement from an oil pipeline. She talks about the ecological damag...
The (Nearly) Weed-Free Garden – Podcast #30 16 Apr 2012 | 11:27 am
Here’s a picture of Lee Reich’s garden: from leereich.com Either he knows a lot about gardening, or he’s a whiz at Photoshop. I’m betting on the first, which is why I interviewed him for this week’s...
The (Nearly) Weed-Free Garden – Podcast #30 16 Apr 2012 | 07:27 am
Here’s a picture of Lee Reich’s garden: Either he knows a lot about gardening, or he’s a whiz at Photoshop. I’m betting on the first, which is why I interviewed him for this week’s podcast, The Weed-F...
More Space Than You Thought – Podcast 29 10 Apr 2012 | 08:37 am
Fern Richardson grows “tons of herbs,” “tons of succulents,” lots of vegetables, and at least six trees—on a balcony. I’m not quite sure of the tree count, because after I counted to six, I’m afraid m...
Be kind to your knees. And don’t believe everything you read on the internet. 29 Mar 2012 | 06:25 pm
Be kind to your knees. And don’t believe everything you read on the internet. It has been a wild and wooly week in the world of research here at the Manic. Since I’m researching for my WWII book as w...
Be kind to your knees. And don’t believe everything you read on the internet. 29 Mar 2012 | 02:25 pm
Be kind to your knees. And don’t believe everything you read on the internet. It has been a wild and wooly week in the world of research here at the Manic. Since I’m researching for my WWII book as we...
