Wendy Akin
September 22, 1942 – August 8, 2020 2020 has been a rough year in many ways. If you have been following us awhile then you’ll remember our dear friend, Wendy Akin. We met Wendy way back in early 2006 when […]
Bird Errr Snake Nest on the Ground?
We’re working on clearing our nursery beds that have been in cover crops. This also means clearing aisles. We found this in one, pretty sure it’s snake eggs…they’re part of the soil food web!
Buy the Plant or Buy Seeds?
Hi Folks, in this trying time we wanted to give you some common sense gardening advice. Today we took one a quick trip to a store to buy some vegetable plants. We normally start all of our own, but hadn’t […]
Master Gardeners Under the Microscope
I had a fun morning last week working with my fellow Rockwall County Master Gardeners to look at their problem soils under the microscope. I’d done a brief class about the Soil Food Web at the February meeting. Last week’s […]
Radical Mycology
We’re both studying with Dr. Elaine Ingham to become Soil Foodweb Consultants and one interesting topic that comes up a lot is using biology to clean up toxins in the soil. This video from Radical Mycology shows some examples of […]