by Greg Alder | Nov 5, 2021 | Avocados, Soil |
In 2018, I visited the largest organic avocado farm in California. It’s those hills in the photo above — they’re covered with hundreds of acres of avocado trees. And I felt vindicated when I saw that they care for the soil under their trees in essentially...
by Greg Alder | Oct 16, 2020 | Soil, Vegetables |
October being one of the two transitional times in the vegetable garden in Southern California (March being the other), it is a month when I usually add compost to the beds. So compost is on my mind right now. I’ve been using compost to fertilize my vegetable gardens...
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 | Feb 14, 2017 | Soil |
You want your vegetables and fruit trees to grow well and provide you with good food, so you seek advice about how to create the best soil conditions for your plants. You encounter this recommendation in Sunset’s The Edible Garden book about how to...
by Greg Alder | May 13, 2015 | Misc |
I balked at the idea of urinating into a toilet bowl of fresh, drinkable water when I first returned from Lesotho. Not that I’d forgotten that was the norm in America. I’d done it my whole life until moving to Lesotho. But as the G.K. Chesterton quote...
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