Permaculture in Northern California

This year I had decided to get back into growing more vegetables and annual food crops. My fruit trees have been doing quite well, providing...

Today I did volunteer work for the Master Gardeners, at the Farmers Market. It was foggy and chilly this morning, and I was glad to get home...

Leaves are dropping off the trees around the yard. Cool weather and brisk winds are helping with the process. Short days make for not too mu...

I've been wanting to delineate the space in the front yard with a border of sorts. I want to build a dry-stack wall at the back side of ...

About a week ago, the skies darkened and thunder roared through the sky. When the clouds burst we were pelted with hail of mixed sizes, from...

One of my pomegranate plants has been laden with about a dozen fruit this year, its first year of fruiting, and the fruits have started to g...

The chicken show. The small ones.

Just a few of the eight smallest chicks in their straw yard. The smallest chicks have been out in the small straw yard, sharing it with t...

Two different types of figs. The purple one is a Mission improved, the stripped ones are Panache. Both are delicious. All the fig trees hav...

Partridge Cochin possibly crossed with d'Uccle All 13 chicks spent their first night together. In the morning the larger five were pi...

My friend got a call about some chicks a woman was looking to send to a new home. Today they showed up.  There were two boxes of them. One g...

I pruned my pomegranate during the winter. When I found myself with some long pieces of pruned  material I thought I'd stick a branch in...

I've just been to a week-long permaculture teacher training and retreat in New Mexico. We were 22 students who have all been through the...

Recently I had the luck of finding out that a friendly couple down the road had an organic garden. I've been walking, cycling, and drivi...

The large peach tree in the back yard has been in decline since before we moved here. I made a few years of mistakes in thinning and pruning...

My small back yard lawn/pasture has taken hold. It is a mix of grass and clover, with a few various weeds. It took a while for the clover an...

In late May I planted the seeds of German Foxtail Millet I'd ordered from Owen at Annapolis Seeds in  Nictaux, NS. He keeps a nice blog ...

The weather has finally warmed up and it is now officially hot. We've had a few days above 100 F and several in the high 90s (that's...

It started with lawn and some foundation shrubs. Feb 2007 It got a small strip at the road edge for planting, and a ginkgo, pomegranate....

This time of year usually finds us basking in hot, sunny weather. We're usually irrigating the garden by now, and the warm-weather plant...