The garden is about 90% planted. peas and poles for the pole beans. compost in background Today I sowed all the dry beans, green beans and pole beans – first year I’m growing these – and the squashes, zukes and cukes. Also watermelon, carrots and basil, and calendula, anise and chamomile (German), all from seed. …
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A Room of One’s Own – A Common Space for Communities
This is an attempt to reboot my reporting.  I am discovering a lot about the world, others, and myself, at record speed. Gotta write it all down! And I’m going to need some new Categories. Here’s where the blog undergoes its next transformation. ~ In our town, where can a group of people go where they …
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Some Thoughts on Organizing a Transition Training
The Wayland Training for Transition is over! I admit I had underestimated the amount of work that goes into organizing it – and commensurately, the relief and gratitude one feels when it all ends well. If you’re ever tempted to try it yourself and you’re like me (a total novice at this kind of thing), …
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Yikes!
Transition Wayland: We’re a Go!
I can’t believe I finally found a moment to sit down and write about this. What a whirlwind it has been, and still is. As you all know, I decided in November of last year that I would try to get Transition going in my hometown. Usually a Transition Initiative starts with a group of …
Spring is Bursting in the Garden
Click for larger A lot has happened in the garden. The trees are gone and there is more sunlight all around. I’ve planted 2 blackberries, 3 elderberries, 50 strawberries, 4 rosas, 2 hazels, 2 serviceberries, 1 jostaberry, 2 peashrubs, 4 muntead lavender, 8 grapes, 4 wormwoods and 1 witchhazel. I’ve put in 90% of my …
The Queen Lives!
I got an email Sunday morning from a fellow beekeeper, letting me know his colony swarmed and would I like the swarm? Unfortunately I read the email too late, and by the time I called him someone else was already collecting the swarm. Bummer! But wow, was there ever excitement! In any case, I called …
House of Death and BEEwareness
I hope I’m wrong. I don’t think I am, but one can always hope. Really. Yesterday I did a long hive inspection. It was warm and there was no wind, the bees were flying, and it was time to find out what’s happening inside. I did short inspections before, but this time I pulled out …
We’re a Can-Do Kind of People
Today I found a study in contrasts in the boot of my station wagon: a cello, a chain saw. Once home, we hooked a rope to the car, tied the other end around a log in the big pile, then I reversed to pull the trunk out so DH could cut it up. DH and I …
Rant
Just a quick word, here. I read only the headlines in Google News. That’s the extent of exposure to the Main Stream Media (MSM) as I can stand. And still, I’ll have to quit doing just that. what’s coming out of Fukushima is radio-active poisoning, first of all, *not* falling stock market prices! And yet it’s …