Just a quick check in. It has been the most beautiful fall I have ever seen in Traverse City. Samhain is almost here. I'm working on saving seeds. My heart goes out to WNC and beyond. Cease fire now. Blessed be.
Happy Eclipse Day!
I have seeds I saved ready to share! Click here to "order" free seeds now. Click here to learn more about free seed varieties (and all the other seeds I have that I'm not sharing).
I am excited to announce that my all new website section Conservation Gardening is now online! I developed this content to encourage other gardens in my area to make their managed landscape more environmentally friendly.
I have more website updates coming, including sharing seeds I have saved this year. Stay tuned!
Happy Fall, Ya'll! I just updated this website a bit, and here's whats new:
My about page is all new.
I have started profiling flowers and grasses that I am collecting seeds from this season. I hope to have all these varieties, and more, to share with you!
Please fill out the form just below if you would like to grow some of the seeds I saved last year. You can learn more about each variety from the "2022 Seed Saving" menu.
I'll have lots and lots of seeds to share at the end of the year. I've been spending my free time cleaning, sorting, packing, labeling, counting, and writing about all these seeds. Track my progress in the main menu!
I also wanted to mention that I do all my own photography for this website, so when you are browsing seed varieties I have to share, you are seeing the actual mother fruit, flower, or plant! Isn't that cool?
I decided to listen to podcasts today, which I don't usually do. I found a podcast called "Permaculture for the Future" and I liked it quite a bit. I looked it up online after listening to a few episodes, and found it comes out of the San Diego Sustainable Living Institute. I used to live in San Diego county so I was feeling the connection There. Anyways, here's a link to the podcast: https://www.sdsustainable.org/podcasts/permaculture-for-the-future. In the 3rd episode they talk about rainwater harvesting with Brad Lancaster, and here's the link to some interesting stuff he talks about: https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/case-study/portland-oregon-green-streets/. I would love to see more active rainwater harvesting here in Traverse City. We have a long way to go in making our urban landscape more productive and less input intensive. Anywho, lets dig some rain gardens and plant some trees shall we? Curb cuts, anyone?