Category: US Specific Blogs
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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun or When You’re Crawling Out of a Pandemic.
Where to begin updating you on Herban Renewal – After a pretty productive lock-down period of installing gardens, trying a few hugelculture beds, testing aquaponics, setting up the vermiculture, getting our chickens set up and starting to lay, we did the next logical thing and decided to sell the Herban Renewal property in town! Yep.…
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A practical revolution –
— “A practical revolution,” I read this phrase recently on Morag Gamble’s bio page. If you are not familiar with her, I highly recommend you spend some time reading, perusing, breathing in all of her wisdom. Her topic of education and her way of life are permaculture. The current climate of covid-19, and the civil…
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The Mulch Patch
May is winding down. The weather has been much cooler than most recent Mays and we have had some really hard rains followed by no rain. The garden beds are slowly taking shape and a variety of experiments, which are completely unscientific, are succeeding, or not. Overall, the growth seems slow and tedious for the…
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Herb Gardens
One of my first substantial gardens was an herb garden. I love the smell and ease of herbs and am fascinated at the many medicinal properties. That garden soon evolved to add a few flowers, that were also medicinal, then useful, and finally edible. Being a practical person, today I like to grow things that…
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Herban Renewal – the overall plan
Herban Renewal is a micro intensive urban homestead. Although it is a stand alone facility, it is part of the larger structure of Mahala Love. Herban Renewal will be used as a teaching base and demonstration garden for Mahala Love, as well as serving to provide food and income for the family living onsite and…