Field Trip! Leigh on 15 Aug 2010
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 [...]
The Reference Shelf Leigh on 10 Mar 2010
The weather is warm with some showers and clouds, but just good enough to have me out in the yard prepping garden beds in the new veggie area. I covered the beds with tarps before the rain to prevent too-wet-to-plow delays… Regardless, one whiff of spring soil and I can’t concentrate on anything else!
The little [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 14 Nov 2009
Some days it looks like November around the farm. The wood pile, for one, is growing steadily. Since the ice storm of January brought down around 20 small to medium trees on our three acres, plus countless branches out of even larger trees, there’s been plenty of material to create an enormous wood pile that [...]
Out In The Garden Leigh on 31 Jul 2009
If I’m lucky, this little bloom will grow into a delicious cantaloupe! I didn’t get it planted till late, but probably in time to still get plenty of melons if the raccoons don’t get them first. (The chew a nice hole in the rind then scoop out all the good stuff with those little clever [...]
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