by Greg Alder | Jun 2, 2017 | Chickens |
I used to think of chickens as a threat. When I lived in Lesotho, my neighbor’s roaming chickens repeatedly ate the leaves of my chard down to the stems despite my attempts to fence them out. I couldn’t have imagined that I would see them as I do today, as...
by Greg Alder | May 12, 2017 | Misc |
Yesterday, I opened the door and my two sons, ages 1 and 3, ran straight for the blueberries. After they’d worked those plants, they dropped down to the strawberries, and then the garbanzo beans, and then the broccoli, and then the peas, and then the carrots....
by Greg Alder | May 5, 2017 | May, Months |
(Last updated: May 2021) May can be spring, or May can be summer. Last year (2016) it was spring, with cloudy and showery weather, but this year so far it feels more like summer with dry breezes and lots of sun and not much May Gray yet — yet! The forecast is...
by Greg Alder | Dec 20, 2016 | Fruit, Pests |
I love avocado trees, and I sure love my son Miles, but toward the end of the summer his placenta tree started to lose leaves and then lose more leaves and then have some die back on branch tips, so I got emotional in a way I never have toward a tree. I’ve...
by Greg Alder | Dec 13, 2016
Resources The books, documents, videos, charts, handbooks, websites, forums, etc. -- that I find myself referring to over and over again when I have questions about food gardening in Southern California. ? Vegetables Which vegetables to plant when: “Vegetable...
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