A few weeks ago, we had a beautiful flush of meaty looking mushrooms. I thought it was interesting since, I have been trying to grow my own mushrooms this year.

Late last season, my son and daughter wanted to plant something. It was only about a month before our average first frost, but I didn’t really see any real loss, if the plants didn’t survive. My daughter planted lettuce, which rapidly grew and was consumed as fast as we could cut it. My son decided [...]

We had a great turnout for our first landscaping day at Liberty and Sutter Park elementary schools. Even on short notice, we had enough helpers, both adults and children to weed, plant and mulch 7 beds. One bed was essentially gone when our group started cleaning. By the end of the day, the bed with [...]