The Freedom Lawn
We’ve grown a little too obsessed with perfection. It’s everywhere we look. If we turn on the television, all we have to do is tune in to the commercials to see that we are being sold a bill of goods:…
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Wordless Wednesday–Photos from the Freedom Lawn
A little over 2 weeks ago I talked about my “Freedom Lawn.” That post had no photos because we were still having snow! It has since warmed up enough for things to green up and start blooming so I thought…
Feeling Patriotic? Grow A Freedom Lawn This Year!
I would love to say that I came up with this concept but I did not. It’s not even a new concept. It’s been around for a decade or more as I wrote about in a post that you can…
The “Freedom” Lawn
Before anyone gets too excited, I’d love to claim title to this concept but it’s not mine. As near as I can figure, it dates back to 2005, to a book written by Hannah Holmes called Suburban Safari: A Year…
The Stress Less Lawn
We used to call this the “Freedom Lawn”–as in “free” from pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. But these days, that almost sounds like a political statement, so in the interest of maintaining political neutrality, I am renaming it the “stress-less lawn.”…
Could You–or Your Community–Go “No Mow” for a Month?
It’s no secret that we have been organic for decades–since 1996 when I first researched why there were so few butterflies on my property and discovered that they were sensitive to pesticides. Oh simple, I thought. We’ll just use no…
Wordless Wednesday
Every time I go to water a certain pot, I find this katydid on one of the blooms. Usually it’s the gerbera daisies. Sometimes it’s the marigolds. It doesn’t seem to be doing much damage. And of course in the…
The Quest for Garden Perfection
On this April Fool’s Day, let’s not be Gardening Fools, shall we? Where I garden, in central Connecticut, it’s still pretty cold. In fact, over the weekend and into early next week, they’re predicting snow in some amounts from flurries…
The Simple Things….continued
I started off my Friday post with a quote from a previous post about “sometimes doing the simple thing is also the best thing for our pollinators.” I sort of intended that post to be about pollinators and then it…
Wordless Wednesday–The Last of the May Flowers
Despite some unusual heat this May, the lack of rain has slowed down both the growth and the flowering in my yard. It’s been a very strange season. Nevertheless, certain things are still blooming–with more to come in June I…
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