Category: Martha’s Kitchen Garden
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Water where there didn’t used to be
Muscovy in a swale after a heavy rain.
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Good Morning
Wild geese sharing the pond with semi-wild Muscovies this morning.
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Muscovy Nesting Season
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Good morning
Good morning
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One Woman on a Mountainside
The truth is that one sixty year old woman with a shovel can’t move a mountain, but she can do a whole lot to assist the soil, herself, her neighbors downstream, the birds and the bees. She can invite the beaver to come back, and The People too, who walk the land and have always…
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Good morning
The Muscovies have broken off into two tribes. The semi-wild pond family that loses all its eggs and babies to predators (so far) and the locked- under-deck family that doesn’t want to leave, and so far, raises their babies in safety.
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Good morning
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Good morning
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Good Morning
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Communifficiency
A vibrant community can come together to make life more beautiful and literally more fruitful for everyone walking on the land. That just seems like so much more fun than flying solo.
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Soil and People
Doing more for your soil doesn’t require spending, or extra effort. It requires the opposite. Our relationships with each other are the same way. If we feed them with love, they will prosper without much difficulty. If we pour on fake feelings and disrespect we will wind up with a lifeless pile of dirt falling…
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From Yard Waste to Garden Bed
I compare myself to the all-weather raspberry plant these days. I am resilient too, and my roots run through the fertile soil of nearly six decades of learning.
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Life is full of Many Maybes
I never did get quite enough raspberries this spring to make raspberry jam. Maybe I will get a fall crop that will yield more berries. My older blueberry bushes also didn’t have a high yield, although I am still picking some. We had a very hot and dry few weeks and many of the blueberries…
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Propagating Wild Blackberries
Martha digs up wild blackberries to share for propagation in other gardens.
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Propagating Coreopsis
Martha talks about propagating coreopsis to share with other gardeners.