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Continue reading →: Irrigation 2.1
I realize the title of this post is somewhat misleading as there have been no previous posts on irrigation. However, this is in fact generation 2.1 for watering methods in our community garden. Version 1.0 was watering everything by hand, which took about 20 minutes at most, but required constant…
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Continue reading →: First Harvest
Here she is: the beautiful, deep green zucchini, the first bounty of our community garden! Yes, I really did just take a picture of a squash and post it on the internet. I’m a geek. We’ve also had a few sweet and zesty yellow cherry tomatos, and some wild blackberries,…
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Continue reading →: Fail Faster
Due to a very energetic toddler and various other life happenings, this week’s regular post is a short one. Gordon over at Rune Soup (probably my favorite magic blog) posted this fantastic TED Talk about the benefits of trial and error—of failing faster, as Robert Kiyosaki put it. It’s something…
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Continue reading →: Honeycomb Wall
Soon after we moved, one of our neighbors hijacked me into helping out with maintaining the community labyrinth. It’s a wonderful piece of landscape design, weaving in and out of the trees—something I’ve personally never seen done before. It’s a Baltic labyrinth, meaning that there are two paths, one in…
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Continue reading →: Ancestral Tribes
What I call the Ancestral Tribes are something I stumbled upon while more heavily involved in the Vanatru movement. I had heard mention of some sort of tribal structure for the citizens of Vanaheim, but as yet I hadn’t had any direct experience with them myself. One morning I was…







