The intent of our permaculture gardening is to create a mutually beneficial relationship with the earth and all her creatures. But lately, it feels like a little backyard battle. The squirrels have…| Finding Our Way Home
Today a monarch butterfly finally found our little milkweed patch in our roadside garden bed. Last year, three plants appeared there on their own, and in late July we saw a caterpillar. In the spri…| Finding Our Way Home
This morning there was more excitement concerning the sole surviving baby robin. It had walked out from the nest onto the nearby beam, even into the next section of beam. So it was alive! But the parents went back and forth calling several times. I was watching through the glass of the back door, hoping […]| Finding Our Way Home
Something got at our baby robins… of the four in the nest, we just found three on the deck floor, two were dead, and one still alive–I gently put that one back in the nest, but not sure if it is really okay or how it might survive, we hope the parents will come back […]| Finding Our Way Home
My favorite color in the garden is this blue/purple of the Siberian iris. They’ve multiplied in the roadside garden bed, and blossomed all along the way. And now they are gone. So we had mayb…| Finding Our Way Home
This earth love is a balancing act. We love critters in the yard, after all, they live here too, and have the right to be here. They bring so much joy to us. But we want to grow food too. The last …| Finding Our Way Home
Fire in the wood stove during the April storm. In the midst of a 55-hour power outage, before I knew how long it would actually be, I was sitting in front of the wood stove which had kept us warm f…| Finding Our Way Home