My garden is abuzz on several levels. Everyday, more and more of my favorites come into their blooming season: yellow ribes, pink ribes, brilliant yellow mahonia, glowing blue ceanothus, yellow fremontia….and more. This visual “buzz” is accompanied by the literal… Continue Reading
In the 2011 growing season, market gardeners Brian Marshall and Nancy Heinzel owners of Sawmill Creek Farms in Paradise, stretched themselves and their 3 acre-CSA and market garden further than it had been stretched before and began growing a portion… Continue Reading
“There is a certain slant of light/ on winter afternoons/ that oppresses…” wrote the poet Emily Dickinson. But Emily, an avid gardener herself, knew just as surely that this same slant of light – made slightly higher and longer with… Continue Reading
Ahhh fragrance….all I can say is “thank you” to the universe of sweet scents. With all these plants in bloom again, seemed an apt time to revisit this piece. Enjoy. My Daphne odora began its seasonal bloom this past week… Continue Reading
Every year Shrove Tuesday arrives – the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, the Catholic/Anglican/Episcopal 40-day season of thoughtful repentance and fasting before Easter – and I think to myself: “it’s pancakes for dinner tonight.” Photo: Two… Continue Reading
On Saturday February 23rd from 2 pm – 6pm at the GRUB cooperative at 1525 Dayton Road in Chico, the GRUB Education Program and Chico Permaculture Guild host their 4th Annual Spring Seed Swap. On Wednesday February 13th from 3pm… Continue Reading
Snow days can offer some of the most stunning peaceful views you will ever see in your garden – but snow and its accompanying frost and ice is difficult to predict and impossible to control. To re-work an old saying… Continue Reading
On January 26th, 2008, Northstate Public Radio aired its first segment of In a North State Garden, a locally-conceived and produced, 4-minute, often interview-based program celebrating home gardening in the North State Region; a region 10 counties strong, just about… Continue Reading
I have read that: “Happiness is the way you arrange your mind”. While the actual translation of the word Bonsai, as it relates to the ancient Asian horticultural art, is “tree in a pot”, many practitioners of the art might… Continue Reading
Winter can mean rain or snow, wind or stillness, sun or darkness. But in the valley and foothill portions of our region – winter also means ferns. From the first late fall rains through to the heat of summer gardens… Continue Reading
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