Monthly Archives: August 2009

Meanwhile, Back At the Ranch

Home at last!  First back to San Francisco, then finally back up to the ranch in the Cazadero hills.  The good news—my housemates in the city have actually kept the gardens watered, and even the tubs in front of the garage were flourishing.  Tomatoes were growing up my tomato tower and the graywater system seems to [...]
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Solar Solutions and Permaculture Water Landscape at Tamera Ecovillage

“The problem was not lack of water, it was in our water management,” said Bernd Muller of their Ecology group. “We didn’t have a scarcity of water—we had a potential abundance.
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Just an administrative thing

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English Gardens

All those high, trimmed, hedges stiff as an upper lip, controlled, repressed—then behind them and within those secret rooms, cascades of life and color and scent spilling out over the borders in lush profusion as if they’d had a few drinks and lost their inhibitions.
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