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It's just my husband and me, and our cat, Z.
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I'm crazy about gardening and plants in general. Two of my passions are learning and the outdoors...and what better way to learn outdoors than gardening!
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organic gardening, native plants, biking, candle making, music, almost anything outdoors
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spinach, arugula, carrots, mache, kale, brocolli, asparagus, peas, lettuce, garlic, okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, green (bush) beans, pole beans, squash, potatoes
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humid temperate
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3 week(s) ago
mecar posted a comment on littlefeatfan's profile:Hi Doug,
Welcome to Freedom Gardens! I know I've heard your name before, and feel like I should know you. I work in biology at Governors State University, in the far south suburbs. Are you a member of the McHenry County Land Conservancy? I'...
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Photo Albums (7)
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Updated 6 month(s) ago
Here are some pictures, starting in mid July, of our garden.
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Updated 5 month(s) ago
We have a swath of native tallgrass prairie plants going the length of o...
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Updated 9 month(s) ago
OK, I'm being optimistic...let's say that spring '09 star...
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Updated 9 month(s) ago
These are pictures of our cold frame this January, after a period of _re...
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Updated 10 month(s) ago
Although all of us in the Midwest are moaning about winter now, it can b...
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Updated 11 month(s) ago
Garden pictures from last spring and late summer, as a reminder that gre...
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Updated 10 month(s) ago
These are pictures of our present cat, Zea (named after corn), and her &...
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Garden Journal Entries (19)
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Posted: 5 month(s) ago
Yesterday I made an elderberry-apple pie from foraged apples and backyard elderberries. The campus of the university where I work used to be a farm,...
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Posted: 6 month(s) ago
It's been a while since I made an entry in the journal. So here's an update... Overall, it's been a good summer in the garden. The pests seemed...
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Posted: 7 month(s) ago
Here's a link with instructions for a leaf "bird bath." This looks like fun...think I'll try it!
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Posted: 7 month(s) ago
The garden is doing well. There are a few frustrations, as always...like the squirrel (I think) who insists on sawing down large corn plants. So...
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Posted: 9 month(s) ago
Here's the latest on our bird visitors to the yard: song sparrow (definitely) indigo buntings goldfinches ruby-throated hummingbird And a pair of house...
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mecar's Recent Bookmarks
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OrganicToBe.orghttp://organictobe.org/ - This website is the blog home of Greg Atkinson, Lisa Barnes, Jesse Cool, Jeff Cox,
Rosalind Creasy and Gene Logsdon. It contains posts on organic recipes, gardening and farming skills, news and opinions. more
Spontaneous Vegetationhttp://spontaneousvegetation.net/ - A Chicago based website administered by Nance Klehm, a "radical ecologist, designer, urban forager, grower and teacher." Nance "focuses on creating participatory social ecologies in response to a direct experience of a place." The website includes information on a Chicago based seed archive, "Living Kitchen" workshop more
Spontaneous Vegetationhttp://spontaneousvegetation.net/ - A Chicago based website administered by Nance Klehm, a "radical ecologist, designer, urban forager, grower and teacher." Nance "focuses on creating participatory social ecologies in response to a direct experience of a place." The website includes information on a Chicago based seed archive, "Living Kitchen" workshop more
Salvation Janehttp://www.salvationjane.net/ - Salvation Jane is "an evolving and involved network of earnest, experimental, adventurous and big-hearted bunch who really are in the practice of re-connecting self to self, mapping private ways through the public realm and discovering and nuturing the wild within the built environment." Chicago based website that includes information on more
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