That would not have happened to a white girl.
June 4, 2020
Earlier this week I called a friend in to check on another friend. She and I had a conversation about the protests and about race. She told me a this story. (Names are changed):
... I always told my boys, if the cops stop…
Adiós Allison!
May 19, 2020
Allison got a radish. After a year and a half of hard labor, she walked away with a radish. Now it's a nice radish, for a very nice person. Notice that grin. As if I had given her a new pole-pruner or something. Her smile is…
And This Little Piggy Stayed Home … to sip Nettle tea
April 16, 2020
Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) is a perennial plant of the nettle family, Urticaceae. It makes a wonderful tea and, stir fried with cabbage and onion, is stunning (not stinging).
This month, Nancy and I have been stalking…
The Microbes Version of the Thermal Compost
March 13, 2020
The Essence of A Thermal Compost
as told by the microbes, in community
Material Variety
Amy Amoeba begins the compost story, "Wow. I just got thrown onto a big pile with critters I have never seen before."
"Yes indeed",…
Ten Years at Freeway Estates
February 18, 2020
Volunteers who put in 20+ hours last year gathered recently to sip Chestnut soup and brainstorm. Good ideas flowed, including a suggestion to add a sign to the kiosk, summarizing our efforts during the past ten years. Below…
Pathogen-Reducing Compost
January 14, 2020
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Benefits of compost are widely known: 1) enhances water holding capacity, soil structure, organic matter, drainage, and nutrient holding capacity of soil, 2) provides a source of beneficial microbes, 3) decreases…
Your Hori-Hori Could be Harboring Clubroot
November 26, 2019
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I meet weekly with the DirtLife group at Sound Bio Lab. Other members are scientists who are also interested in soil. We are designing a community-based science project so we surveyed the Seattle P-Patch…
How to Guard Against Leaf Miners
November 16, 2019
Joan here. I have been volunteering at FECO since the beginning of time. Recently, in my writing class, the instructor charged us to write a set of instructions for how to do something. Here goes!
Leaf miner larvae were…
Are Those Freckles?
October 18, 2019
Not Freckles. Dimples? Not dimples. Bitter pit. It's a bothersome disorder, common in Honeycrisp apples. In the cells of this apple, there is more air space and more pores than in normal apples. The pits are manifestations…