In case any ex-deskjobees are looking for valuable experience, I can use the help in exchange for 30 years of my wisdom and my mistakes...

From the Mastodon permaculture class tour earlier in the summer. Photo by Wayde Lawder.

I've been wanting to put a new roof on the milking parlor of the barn at BEYOND for years. Today was the day. Big thanks to Chad and Jamie for getting her done. The new roof is burgundy, the color of a fine red wine.

So many swallowtails at BEYOND that you can almost hear them.

A 2017 theatre of plants growing at BEYOND

"71-year-old Raju explains his method, “Covering the fields with weeds and grass gives birth to microbes, earthworms and insects, which bore holes in the soil and makes it softer and porous. It collectively increases the fertility of the soil, resulting in a good harvest.”

Happening this coming Sunday at 2. Share widely!

The contamination of conventional wine was 28 times higher than organic wine, with levels ranging from 0.659 ppb in organic to 18.74 ppb in conventional wine.

The wines tested came from Napa Valley, Sonoma and Mendocino counties in California. The brand names of the wines were not revealed, and frankly, the brands are not the issue. The real issue is the widespread contamination of glyphosate based herbicides in consumer products.

First fig planted in the ground of the new Fighouse is a Sal's Coreleone. Still a good chance it could freeze inside the greenhouse so I'm taking a bit of a gamble. But. I. Couldn't. Wait.