It is always strange to me that summer begins when the days start getting shorter. And yet we stew through the persistent heat and humidity, these lazy days of summer. If only mine were lazy! I feel as though there is never enough time for all the things ...
The scythe is an elegant tool, used effectively for centuries, and still the best around for slicing mature grasses and other tall tender plants down to a nice turf with reliable efficiency. No motor, no noisiness beyond the repeated swoosh of the blade ...
As we approach the equinox, I've been noticing and appreciating the lengthening days here in Northeast Missouri. Our chickens have too, going from two or three eggs on a good day to a dozen-plus day after day here in mid-March. Just as the grass is green ...
When I first came to Dancing Rabbit twenty years ago as an intern, I spent some of my free time building rustic furniture to spruce up my outdoor abode. Skyhouse was in the process of being framed, so there was a goodly pile of lumber scraps and off-cuts ...
Ted here with the latest from Dancing Rabbit ecovillage. It is harvest time, and with all the cool, clear days and nights right now, it feels like it. Honey locust leaves fall steadily, and other leaves will soon start turning, but in the garden, we're s ...
I am munching an ear of corn from the garden as I write this, one of the last ears of several dozen that we successfully grew and managed to eat this year - as opposed to the many we've grown and lost to racoons in many previous years. This is just one o ...
I know there are dictation devices out there, and it might even be that the smartphone I have begun using in the past few months would already do this for me, but I often long for a way to record my thoughts as I'm at work. In the days leading up to my t ...
These are not normal times for any of us. For the second year in a row the peaches are almost entirely bloom-less, even though the pears and apples are bursting into a full complement. We actually managed to get peas in the ground in a timely way this ye ...
