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My husband and I have two cats: Z and Bart.
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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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mecar updated their current Mood: Optimistic 
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mecar has started the first of the spring seeds!
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mecar updated their profile.
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Updated 10 day(s) ago
This spring I started the first seeds in seed blocks on Feb. 28.
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Updated 7 month(s) ago
Here are some pictures, starting in mid July, of our garden.
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Updated 6 month(s) ago
We have a swath of native tallgrass prairie plants going the length of o...
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Updated 10 month(s) ago
These are pictures of our cold frame this January, after a period of _re...
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Updated 11 month(s) ago
Although all of us in the Midwest are moaning about winter now, it can b...
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Garden pictures from last spring and late summer, as a reminder that gre...
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Updated 11 month(s) ago
These are pictures of our present cat, Zea (named after corn), and her &...
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Garden Journal Entries (20)
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Posted: 10 day(s) ago
I started the first of my 2010 seeds on the last day of February. I like to think of this as the first sign of spring, but it's not really. Amaz...
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Posted: 6 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: 7 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: 8 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: 8 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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mecar's Recent Bookmarks
These are bookmarks that mecar has recently voted on or submitted
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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