My little yard is teeming with life, and I couldn’t be more excited. In addition to new shoots, leaves, buds, and blossoms, I have also seen an increase in wildlife – flies, slugs, snails, caterpillars, bees, birds, lizards, and tons of tiny soil helpers that I can’t identify. I wake up each morning eager to [...]
After many years of pining, and many months of delaying, I am now the proud tender of my very own growing space. My dear husband, whose benevolence more often than not gets taken for granted, spent several days designing and building me a raised planter box using nothing but his ingenuity, some hand tools, and [...]
When we moved into the new house in November, I was disappointed to discover that the 4×4 box in the backyard would not make a suitable planter box. The box is placed on a cement patio that is perpetually in the shadow of the house so growing things there is out of the question. Instead, [...]
Posted by Renée Woodring on February 15th, 2010 under
My SoCal Life Tags:
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Composting •
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I had always thought of urban foraging like a treasure hunt. Sneaking through the bush, avoiding questioning eyes, searching high and low to seek my quarry – ripe fruit for the taking. Reality was slightly different. In broad daylight, I pulled my car up to the curb, hopped out, and scavenged my first fallen fruit. [...]
Posted by Renée Woodring on February 2nd, 2010 under
Food,
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lemons,
Urban Foraging •
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