Wood for Food ~ Gardening with the Slow Burn of Rotting Wood

As the yellow-bellied marmots seek more and more food,  I build more and more cages.  All shapes and sizes ~ this time of year is a f...

In the Cucumber Tipi Part 1  post, you saw a patch of weedy orchard grass turned into a central structure in the Wood for Food garden. We n...

This year, I experimented with growing veggies by sowing seeds directly in the soil much earlier than suggested, with additional protection...

The center bed in my garden was taken over by orchard grass. I pulled the grass out a couple of years ago and fed it to the underground...

In 2012, I ordered six apple trees: Idared, Gravenstein, Honey Crisp, Jonagold, Yellow-Golden Delicious, and Northern Spy. I really only wa...