While I always anticipate the arrival of the warm days of summer, the crisp air of autumn, and slow winter nights, spring is admittedly a season I get excited over. Perhaps this is because living in Southern California, our winters are too mild to get tired of and wish away. Most things stay green here […] The post 5 Ways to Welcome Spring’s Arrival first appeared on Bella Grace Magazine.| Bella Grace Magazine
Wintertime, the down time for a vegetable farmer without a greenhouse, finds me in the forest repairing barbed-wire fences. While there, I meander off with my trusty loppers and cut poison ivy vines at the base of the trees they are snaking up. The revelation that this obnoxious plant did not thrive as a woodland plant unless its leaves have access to sunshine surprised me. I happily relieve our forests of this rash-producing pest by simply snipping it off at ground level while taking a walk ...| The Barefoot Farmer