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Garden: Happy Spring 4: blossoming

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Food for all kinds of beings! Currant bushes are the first fruit-bearing plants to blossom. They’ve been doing so for a week. Their flowers smell like honeysuckle and are tube-shaped. They and dandelions are the first pollinator food in this … Continue reading →

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Garden: Happy Spring! – eating already (and no plastic!)

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Mother Nature is amazing!!! The Asparagus is coming up. Had it for supper on Tuesday. The Walking Onions are up adequately to cut greens to add to a sauté. Garlic greens are almost five inches tall. And Mountain Spinach (local … Continue reading →

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Garden: Happy Spring! 2 – prep and cold weather plants

Posted on April 16, 2024 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

The remaining soaker hoses plus 5ft length connection hoses should arrive later this week. The plan is that, Friday, the full experiment in irrigation will be laid and tested, then square-foot lines of twine laid in all raised beds and … Continue reading →

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Garden: Happy Spring! -1

Posted on April 6, 2024 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Global climate disruption is here. Last summer it made its presence known in Jaroso, CO. Jaroso is in south-central Colorado, two or five miles from the New Mexico border depending on which direction to go to the border. This little … Continue reading →

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Vandana Shiva on Real Food, Real Farming

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

To all my friends, Everyone I know is concerned about their personal health, the health of those around them, the planet’s health, and ongoing well-being as well as how to attend to these in ways available to each of us. … Continue reading →

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