Montana Wildlife Gardener: Trailer Mover
Beyond plants in the garden we have a lot of structure- trellises, outbuildings (greenhouse, tool closet, chicken coop, grill shed) and e...| montanawildlifegardener.blogspot.com
Beyond plants in the garden we have a lot of structure- trellises, outbuildings (greenhouse, tool closet, chicken coop, grill shed) and e...| montanawildlifegardener.blogspot.com
Yesterday, our garden coaching business, Butterfly Properties competed in my favorite Missoula event- Home ReSource's Spontaneous Constru...| montanawildlifegardener.blogspot.com
Thanks for visiting. I hope you find some useful information on this blog.| Montana Wildlife Gardener
It’s time for the Game of Cat Thrones, where you win or| Montana Wildlife Gardener
If you like your cats and you like wildlife, do them both a favor and keep your cats inside. Cats live longer, healthier| Montana Wildlife Gardener
So I haven’t really been keeping up with this blog and frankly I am not sure of its fate. Since I haven’t been updating it regularly like I once did, this blog has turned into more of a static website, and I think that is fine. I think the value of this blog lies in is utility as reference and as a resource to cover topics in depth, but after eight (!) or so years, I find many of the issues with native plants and wildlife gardening keep coming up, so rather than reposting an old article...| Montana Wildlife Gardener
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It is that time of the year again; time to recognize the contributions of some exceptional individuals. Yes, it’s time to vote for your Cat of the Year.| Montana Wildlife Gardener
This September, my wife and I will each teach a class through the Missoula County Public Schools Lifelong Learning Center. We each taught classes last year; Marilyn taught a class on composting, and I taught one on native bees and building a native solitary nesting bee box. | Montana Wildlife Gardener
SponCon's coming! This year celebrates over ten years of Spontaneous Construction, Home ReSource's annual festival of creative reinvention. | Montana Wildlife Gardener
Little Free Library #12129 is in action! This has been on my project list for over a year, and I am glad to get it crossed off. | Montana Wildlife Gardener
Marilyn and I have been garden coaches in Missoula since about 2009 (Butterfly Properties). Garden coaching is just what it sounds like: helping people identify garden goals and then helping them achieve those goals in a step-wise strategy.| Montana Wildlife Gardener
I had a lot of fun talking about native plants, native| Montana Wildlife Gardener
Biscuitroot (Lomatium ambiguum)| Montana Wildlife Gardener
It is that time of the year again, to step away from the garden, from birding, and from re-purposing projects to focus on our family. More importantly, to recognize the contributions of some exceptional individuals.| Montana Wildlife Gardener
When I get asked why I like Spontaneous Construction (SponCon), I inevitably say because it is such a unique event. It is challenging; it is a difficult test of your skills, creativity, and craftsmanship. It is so different from other Missoula events. Yes it is a building competition (I am not aware of any others), but the competition is not really with the other teams, but with yourself. I love building things and every year I challenge myself to build something and unique out of disc...| Montana Wildlife Gardener
This Saturday (September 20) is our favorite event of the year- Spontaneous Construction! This is Home ReSource's annual festival of creative reinvention. It is a celebration of reuse and a building competition where teams have 7 hours to build anything they want from stuff found at Home ReSource. I love it! Seven hours of designing and building fun. It is a great event for competitors and spectators alike, including lots of fun activities for kids. | Montana Wildlife Gardener
Although I’ve been spending a lot of time posting on this blog about birds, and spending time in the garden watching birds, it has been our new chickens. | Montana Wildlife Gardener
The coop is complete, and full of chickens.| Montana Wildlife Gardener
I have made a lot of progress on the garden project list,| Montana Wildlife Gardener
Spring is such an exciting and ever changing time in the garden. This year is no exception. | Montana Wildlife Gardener
In general, our garden is our bird feeder- we planted native plants and created habitat to suit birds' primary food- insects. And it has worked well, though it is not your traditional "birder's garden". I feel like I have written this post before (and probably better), but it is a good reminder this time of the year. For several years I have had mixed feelings for bird feeders, and I have stopped using bird feeders through summer, spring and fall. I have stopped using seed feeders alt...| Montana Wildlife Gardener
I've been spending a lot of time in my shop lately on a variety of projects for our home and garden. Including a bunch of re-purposed garden tool chairs and benches (and things for my Etsy store) but that is for another post. My newest project for the shop is a better heating system- a couple of weeks ago I bought a used pellet stove (a Quadrafire, Mt Vernon). This concludes a 1.5 year search on Craigslist and Home ReSource. I am really excited about heating the shop in a more sustainab...| Montana Wildlife Gardener
Pictured (from the left) Natalie, Marilyn, Miles, David, Alex | Montana Wildlife Gardener
Although it is getting late in the gardening year, I am making some progress now on some garden projects- primarily fencing related. | Montana Wildlife Gardener
