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...

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...

Much has changed since my last post. The bars are closed. No one has money. Preppers are no longer viewed as paranoid fringe-dwellers,...

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...

Things are happening at Turtle Paradise. The digging continues.

We don't mess around here at Turtle Paradise. Check out the progress. https://youtu.be/ro9hCV_BD98

Anecdotal evidence indicates that it is getting wetter in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Weeds and cultivated plants alike thrive in the warm, wet...

Check it out Snowy day at the pond

I love gardening and all its associated tasks: mulching, weeding, planting, and harvesting. Most of all I like eating. Gardening is great...

Check out progress on the turtle pond so far here: Turtle Pond, February 2020

It's been an extremely mild winter here in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Not the warmest I can remember, but temperatures have definitely been...

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...

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...

Check out the turtle pond progress: https://youtu.be/UltjHFcXMfo

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...

We're facing a climate cataclysm of unimaginable magnitude. At this point I believe that we're wasting our time trying to convince...

The year is waning fast. The days are not perceptibly longer, but there is a psychological value in knowing that they are indeed...

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...

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...

The great Gene Logsdon was of the belief that if people would realize that traveling was overrated, and work on turning the spot where...