Archive for the tag 'Live Local'

Doug Tallamy to speak this Friday, Aug. 20th

If you are interested in welcoming songbirds, butterflies and other wildlife to your garden, yard and land as I am here at Larrapin— you want to hear what Doug Tallamy has to say.  His is author of Bringing Nature Home: How to Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, a book that enlightened my planting choices a [...]

Love those chix…

Fayetteville has been aflutter with gardening and chicken energy this weekend. I used up my usual entire month’s worth of off-the-farm socializing attending local events on chix and planting!  First there was a screening of the film about  Mad City Chickens, a funny show documenting the adventures of wanna-be urban chicken wranglers in Madison, WI. [...]

Dirty Movies for Gardeners & Foodies

Northwest Arkansas is preparing for another ice storm nearly to the day of the anniversary of the catastrophic ice storm we had in 2009. It’s predicted to be much less severe though, and that’s an anxiety-ridden comfort. Such is our fate I guess now that the rain/ice/snow boundaries of the country have shifted a [...]

Calvin Bey on Starting a Spring Garden (podcast)

Welcome to the first podcast at A Larrapin Garden. Wow, this stuff is fun. If you scroll down to the bottom of this post you’ll see an audio player. Click the arrow and you can listen now, or click the download link to download the file and listen whenever you want. (If you are reading [...]

A Wordless Wednesday: Ozark Postcard

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