Category: General

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...

I just posted details at Free online Permaculture course by Oregon State University I’m sorry I haven’t posted, been incredibly busy.  I’ll post some major updates in a couple of weeks when things should slow...

By local I mean Mohave County and Southern Nevada.  So many workshops and Bob Morris just started the new Meetup  Las Vegas Desert Horticulture with the first meeting tomorrow.  The Kingman Dig It Community Garden is very...

For years I’ve been subscribing to various Yahoo groups and I run across so much great info, but my brain cannot remember everything.  So I decided to start the High Desert Food resource forum to organize information....

We had a light frost a couple weeks ago and all the squash in the lower garden froze.   Fortunately we had enough time to move a number of basils and peppers into pots before it got down to the low 20s or maybe even teens last...

You can sign up at http://wholeearthsummit.org/ Schedule: TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH (EDT) 4:00 – 5:00pm – HOSTS Janell Kapoor & Stacey Murphy: Vision, Inspiration, Collaboration & Action 5:00 – 5:15pm...

I was very excited after watching the Peaceful Valley / GrowOrganic.com video about Goji Berries and I spent MANY hours getting my order together.   About a week ago I was ready to order: After a great deal of frustration I...

I finally imported my old Solar and Wind Power blog into a sub blog at our High Desert Permaculture site. However, some pictures do not display. I just checked and the pictures are all uploaded, but some pics just don’t...

Check out these cool gardens. Lowarth Helygen (The Lost Gardens of Heligan), near Mevagissey in Cornwall, UK, with two mud sculptures, a small “jungle”, the last remaining pineapple pit in Europe and a series of...

I’ve been extremely busy with the gardens and hoophouse, installing gravity drip irrigation, the occasional paid work and setting up the new website for our non profit, the Lake Mead Community Association.  Since blogs do...

I didn’t think I’d see the day, but last weekend I FINALLY opened the farmstand: Still need to get the roof on, but at least we are open for business. Quite a few people were interested in becoming members of the...