Last week at work, I had a great surprise during lunch. When I finished my lunch, I started to throw out my orange peal and found a new trash can. But this one wasn’t going straight to the landfill. We have recycling bins at work, but this latest effort is an industrial composting program. These [...]
Ahhhh… can you hear me relaxing?
We’re visiting family for spring break this week, and our days have been filled with fabulous food, sunshine, and best friends. My wife even took her first golf lesson yesterday (and we’re both quite pleased she didn’t hurt herself). While we’re spending our days outside, after dinner when our bellies [...]
It is almost planting time, but before you dive into the dirt, I thought I’d make some suggestions to encourage you to go an easier route than the traditional garden. In a recent post on composting, I talked about the Square Foot Gardening method (SFG), so as promised, here are some tips to get you going on your [...]
We had a beautiful weekend here in Boulder, and I only hope that wherever you were was half as nice. All the sunshine started me thinking about our garden this year. I spent a lot of time in the back yard and worked on building my new “square-foot garden“. I also put my back muscles [...]
If there were one new principle (well new for me) that I wanted to share for the new year, it would be permaculture. It is not a simply defined initiative, but the idea can be summed up in a few basic principles. It is a green way of living where instead of “living off the [...]