Gardening Yoga: Pulling the Weeds

Getting rid of the dandelions can be a back-breaking job, but if you have a ton of them choking out the grass, it’s not a bad idea to tackle them. It actually makes quite a nice outdoors activity, particularly if you take the time to really soak the lawn before hand, the lilac bushes are [...]

The Natural World

Working in the garden works muscles that we were made to use. We have performed outdoor activities, particularly growing and harvesting food, all along our stage of evolution until relatively recently. Here in the modern world we have adopted rather sedentary lifestyles, as we plug in, work indoors, and lounge on the couch. Health experts [...]

Home Sweet Home, Grocery Store

I come out to my garden every morning to get swiss chard, collard greens, and/or tomatoes for breakfast. Soon I will have a watermelon and ripe orange peppers. The morning glories are beautiful, in their indigo majesty. Despite the surprise of the pretty little flowers, next year I hope to have a prettier fence, to [...]

Making Watering the Lawn Productive

Not having automatic sprinklers, I am intimately in touch with how much water goes out onto the lawn. I cringe when I do nothing but water and water the grass, just to keep it green. It almost seems pointless. In response to this feeling of waste and the desire to produce food, I have planted [...]