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Turtle in Chief
Apr 5, 20201 min read
Amphibious Explosion
A few short months ago I started digging a pond by hand, which quickly morphed into two ponds. By the start of March, this wetland...
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Turtle in Chief
Mar 28, 20201 min read
Spring Eye Candy
It's official: Spring has arrived. I will now have to exercise extreme self-restraint or I will find myself with 236 pictures of tree...
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Turtle in Chief
Mar 27, 20202 min read
Victory Garden 2.0
Much has changed since my last post. The bars are closed. No one has money. Preppers are no longer viewed as paranoid fringe-dwellers,...
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Turtle in Chief
Mar 9, 20203 min read
Post climate change denial
It's great to see climate change in the news as if it is settled science (it is), but it is possible that we have moved beyond climate...
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Turtle in Chief
Feb 23, 20201 min read
February 23, 2020
Things are happening at Turtle Paradise. The digging continues.
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Turtle in Chief
Feb 15, 20201 min read
February 15 2020
We don't mess around here at Turtle Paradise. Check out the progress. https://youtu.be/ro9hCV_BD98
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Turtle in Chief
Feb 10, 20202 min read
Pond Theory
Anecdotal evidence indicates that it is getting wetter in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Weeds and cultivated plants alike thrive in the warm, wet...
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Turtle in Chief
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Food, my favorite thing
I love gardening and all its associated tasks: mulching, weeding, planting, and harvesting. Most of all I like eating. Gardening is great...
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Turtle in Chief
Feb 3, 20201 min read
Turtle Pond: February 2020
Check out progress on the turtle pond so far here: Turtle Pond, February 2020
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Turtle in Chief
Jan 31, 20202 min read
February, almost
It's been an extremely mild winter here in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Not the warmest I can remember, but temperatures have definitely been...
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Turtle in Chief
Jan 28, 20203 min read
You knew this was coming
It's in these last few days of January that even the strongest among us feel ourselves to be on the edge of what used to be called...
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Turtle in Chief
Jan 24, 20202 min read
Ash apocalypse
There are plenty of ash saplings coming up on the farm, but all the ash trees of any size are dead, felled by the emerald ash borer. This...
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Turtle in Chief
Jan 16, 20201 min read
Turtle pond progress
Check out the turtle pond progress: https://youtu.be/UltjHFcXMfo
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Turtle in Chief
Jan 13, 20205 min read
Eating meat shrinks your ****!
I didn't write that title. I hired a headline writer to come up with it, who thought I'd get more readers with something inflammatory. My...
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Turtle in Chief
Jan 6, 20204 min read
The siren song of the simple solution
We're facing a climate cataclysm of unimaginable magnitude. At this point I believe that we're wasting our time trying to convince...
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Turtle in Chief
Dec 27, 20192 min read
Coppicing at the end of the year
The year is waning fast. The days are not perceptibly longer, but there is a psychological value in knowing that they are indeed...
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Turtle in Chief
Dec 22, 20193 min read
Science, soil, headlines, and random photos
I have something of an obsession with soil. To give you a idea of what I mean, if someone asks me if I like Jethro Tull, I look forward...
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Turtle in Chief
Dec 18, 20193 min read
Naughty nativars and sexy species
So you're interested in growing perennials that offer food for birds and bees, and you go to the garden center, where you are directed to...
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Turtle in Chief
Dec 15, 20193 min read
Paradise building
The great Gene Logsdon was of the belief that if people would realize that traveling was overrated, and work on turning the spot where...
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