I have a visitor very much into mushrooms and we’re definitely going to grow several varieties. Unfortunately, our high desert dry hot / cold climate is not at all suitable for portobello mushrooms, love those as meat substitute as I’m less and less into eating animals. In our research we found Lion’s Mane: https://draxe.com/lions-mane-mushroom/ The …
I’m hoping to finally catch up on the gazillion things to do and start posting all the cool stuff we’ve been doing. But first an inspiring article and video about Milford “Pete” Nodlinski, the 99-year-old farmer in Nebraska: 99 years … I’ve been contemplating what it means to be almost 60.
Lately just about EVERYBODY tells me how I need to get up at sunrise and work outside until it’s too hot. And I refuse to do so because I don’t need more injuries, don’t need to be miserable all day and it just doesn’t work for me. So I had to watch Marjory Wildcraft’s video …
This 7 part series is free on Youtube, but each episode is only available for 24 hours and it started yesterday. I just watched the beginning of the first episode and it is about the medical benefits of cannabis (marijuana). I really wish I could grow hemp as it would help so much with wind …
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It’s been CRAZY here in the Joshua Tree desert. Farmers are clearing entire square miles of Joshua Tree forest for almonds and other fruit and nut trees. They’re using the water in our aquifers without any well monitoring, they clear-cut without any environmental review and they destroy one of the most beautiful Joshua Tree forests …
This really is amazing: https://youtu.be/TghTECI5MJo
The $175 classes start 1/18 and 1/19 in Kingman and Lake Havasu and I posted the class schedule and registration form: Forum
My neighbor Patty just harvested their sweet potatoes: This picture was taken on 10/10 when a red racer was racing through their garden. They have been harvesting lots of tomatoes and Patty has been canning. I’ve been enjoying their extra eggplant and peppers. It’s incredible that it’s mid November and their tomatoes are STILL …
I realize that secession is unlikely, but if the West Coast was to secede, I think I’d be moving! As much as I love Arizona and especially the Joshua Tree desert, the many tourist and Muslim hating right wingers and the absence of any appreciation of “good” food in Mohave County is starting to frustrate …
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Geoff Lawton combined Greening the Desert I and II and included some updates: Free today only: Greening The Desert Journey – Geoff Lawton