Coffee grounds are a waste product for coffee houses, cafes, and restaurants, but are a great substrate for growing oyster mushrooms. Unlike log culture, oyster mushroom mycelium can run on fresh...
Defending your farm or yard against deer can be a real headache. There is nothing more frustrating then spending your time nurturing your seedlings or saplings to find them nibbled down to the...
Skip the expensive fertilizers this year and make your own home-brew, compost tea! Not only is compost tea a highly effective fertilizer, but it is easy to do, cheap, all natural, and won’t...
Subsurface irrigation using unglazed clay pots (Ollas) is a method that has been used for centuries, especially in arid parts of the world including places in India, Brazil, and Iran. Acting as an on...
Looking out at my predominately brown winter landscape, I want to add some plants that will provide some winter interest next year. For a native plant lover, I appreciate color and texture in the...
It is so incredibly easy to turn kitchen scraps and other “waste” products into black-gold worm castings, it’s amazing that not everyone is doing this. Worm castings have five times...
Now that fall is setting in for many of us, fires in the wood stove, fireplace, or fire pit are getting fired up. For every cord of firewood burned, a five gallon bucket of ashes will remain. These...
Seven years ago Chuck Varney was in the middle of clearing 15 acres of land for a subdivision on Chebeague Island, just off the coast of Portland, Maine, when he stopped. He’s a logger who runs a...
Sorry to disappoint anyone who thought this was going to be a blog entry about blowing up stumps with dynamite, it’s not. Nor is this article about using mechanical tools or chemicals to...
We tend to take pollinators for granted. I did anyway. They hang around my garden pollinating. But as in many aspects of life, bees were only a 30-second sound bite. I knew all I needed to know...