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So: an ode to under-appreciated (but necessary) home tasks
It’s the final day of 2012 and I don’t have to work. (Poor Bruce does though.) I’ve been up since 5, which is when the 3G Network (Guinness, Godiva and George) prefer to rise so their humans can...
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Sow: dream trees
When I moved from Savannah, Georgia to Southern California when I was in 7th grade, the fields of oranges everywhere captured my imagination. To see oranges growing in neat rows of trees and to smell...
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Sow: spring garden phase 1
Today I was literally outside from sun up to just before sundown. Today was Presidents’ Day in the U.S. and for some reason, my agency had it off for the second year in a row. (Hey, I’m not...
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So: new beginnings
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but January and February have flown by. I can’t believe that it’s March tomorrow. One of my friends calls March, “Kate Month”. She loves her birthday more than anyone I...
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Sow: Eco-lutionary
I don’t ask much of you (beyond reading). Please watch this awesome TED Talk by Ron Finley so you’ll understand why I’m so fired up*: I agree with Ron that we need to make gardening sexy. Not just for...
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So: new beginnings part 2
So I promised earlier this month that March, the month of my birth, would be a month of new beginnings. Of change. Well, it’s certainly delivering in the project arena. And that’s just fine with me....
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Sow: spring fever
Although it’s a bit gloomy-gray out, when George and I went out to pick lunch this morning by headlamp, I knew that I would have a hard time being inside today. So much so that, even though I had time...
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Sow: happy birthday, fig tree
Congratulations, fig tree! You’re a year old. After yesterday’s lengthy post crashed and I lost it the first time, I forgot to mention in the rewrite that our little fig tree has been a member of the...
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So: ice ice baby
our winter is not pretty like this In some parts of the U.S. and lots of Canada, there’s a mythical event called a snow day, usually when the snow comes down so fast and furiously that the plows and...
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Sow: perfection is overrated
When we first started the Mortroski Midcentury Urban Farm, I thought that I had to do everything just right or my garden wouldn’t grow. I tried to mix up the soil and compost just so. I tried to line...
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