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How to Identify Indian Pipes
I was inspired to feature these weirdos after a friend of mine mentioned that she found some recently. Indian Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) are also referred to as ghost plant or corpse plant. They are in...
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How to Join the Blog Carnival (Called How to Find Great Plants – HtFGP)
In November 2010 I decided to host a monthly carnival called “How to Find Great Plants.” (HtFGP for short). Posts in this carnival should be about a food or ornamental plant that you’d recommend to...
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How to Stop and Smell the Flowers (GBBD) #1
Well, not really. Even if I could find any flowers for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, I think the crisp fragrance of winter would have taken precedence. Sometimes the only “How To” needed is how to relax...
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How to Start a Nature Journal
I lead a homeschool hiking group that meets in nearby state parks and natural areas at least once a month. We’re working on nature journals this year and I decided to turn the student tutorial I was...
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How to Find Great Plants, Issue #4
So… did anyone see my giant spring todo list? I’m not going to be writing as often for a bit, but when I do it will include lots of garden transformation photos (and probably some mushrooms since morel...
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How to Get Fuzzy Bees Drunk
We have Passiflora incarnata (maypop passionvine) growing outside our back door. I’ve written in the past about how to grow this native plant for its delicious fruit, but today I wanted to share a...
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How to Get Excited About Poke Sallet (Native Options for Permaculture...
That may be the wordiest title I ever came up with on this blog. The short of it is, “can poke sallet be highly desirable in the garden?” Poke sallet (as in pokeweed, pokeberries, polk salad, or any of...
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How to Identify Pests and Control them Naturally with Beneficial Bugs, Trap...
Consider this article “Sustainable Pest Control 101.” Once you’ve read this, you’ll be an expert at dealing with insects on the farm or in the garden. Photo Caption: Zinnias at the end of a food bed to...
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How to “Permiculturefy” an Urban Farm
I often do or learn a heap of things at once and think I’m going to break it down into a series of bite-sized blog posts. It almost never happens — I post the first segment and then get too distracted...
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How to Attend Hands-On Classes in Gardens, Kitchens, Forests, and Even a Late...
It’s here. The garden classes are in gardens, the cooking classes are in kitchens, the nature study is in forests, the raspberries taste like raspberries, and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries!...
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