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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men - Roald Dahl

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Garden Goals for 2019

March 14, 2019 by Cathi Leave a Comment

If you follow my page on Facebook, you might remember that I LOVE going to Mother Earth News Fair every year. I love sitting in classes and workshops all day learning about these hobbies that fascinate me. Every year I use it as a time to evaluate what I’m doing gardening and sustainability-wise and what […]

Filed Under: Beekeeping, Keeping Chickens, Seed Starting, Updates on My Gardens

Managing Your Homestead While Traveling

March 6, 2019 by Cathi Leave a Comment

As I write this I am sitting in a beautiful hotel lobby in Mexico waiting for a group I am escorting to come check out and head home. My best friend of 40 years is arriving later today and we will spend three days together catching up and relaxing. At home we are having what […]

Filed Under: Garden Maintenance

Seed Starting With Soil Blocking. A Basic How-To

March 4, 2019 by Cathi Leave a Comment

So now you’re convinced that you need to try seed starting by soil blocking. How do you get started? I mentioned that I started after going to a class by Lisa Mason Ziegler at Mother Earth News Fair in Belton, Texas last year. She has a cut flower farm and is pretty much the queen […]

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Five Reasons You Should Try Seed Starting

March 3, 2019 by Cathi Leave a Comment

I have grown to love seed starting using the soil blocking method and you should too. Read on for five reasons why. At the Mother Earth News Fair last year I took a workshop by Lisa Mason Ziegler on the subject. I had never really done it. Not successfully anyway. I either bought starts at […]

Filed Under: Seed Starting

A Garden That Is Changing The World

January 19, 2019 by Cathi Leave a Comment

Dallas Texas is a city normally associated with BIG. Big buildings, big hair, big personalities, big money. Everything is bigger in Dallas. There is, however, a small forgotten corner of Dallas southeast of downtown. It’s called “Bonton”. Associated with high crime, sickness, with only difficult access to healthy food, this neighborhood has been the very […]

Filed Under: Community Gardens I've Visited, Lessons From The Garden

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After managing my strange hobbies for years living in the suburbs in an HOA, we finally bought 13.25 acres in rural Collin County, Texas.

We dubbed our piece of Texas "Nonsense Farm"

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