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Well hi there... just wanted to check in... will be very busy for a while and likely not posting too much as must be working and dealing with the minutiae of paying bills, chores and keeping the cat food coming...; )  You know how important that is.

I just got done doing some billing for my work and of a total of @ $3200 insurance billables... got a ck for $254.  Well that was interesting.  You just never know what those client deductibles will do to surprise you and them.  Of course…

As I read the news about the unfolding disaster at Porter Ranch, the aging pipes that were not updated, the neglect and lack of appropriate secondary containment,  the lack of a regulatory framework to enable regulators to intervene, and we revisit the awareness that there is no meaningful containment  ability once such a leak…

http://www.motherofahubbard.com/10-vegetables-more-cold-hardy-than-kale/

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Editorial/Blogs/Organic%20Gardening/Deep%20Mulch%20Gardening%20%20%20Building%20a%20Habitat%20for%20a%20Whole%20Soil%20Ecosystem.aspx#axzz3HZ7r57yR

Great article from Mother Earth News on succession garden planning:   succession planting

On Catherine Street ~intentional home & co-op (Ypsilanti, Michigan)

We have openings again and are looking for new members. Our co-op has 2 levels of involvement, one is a 2 unit cottage where members have their own separate apartment, but meet monthly year round, and participate more intensively in the garden during the garden season, and the other is a shared co-op household with furnished rooms and a guest room for use by…

Here is the other "garden community" house where we garden and spend time in the summer ~…

~ “psychology as if the whole earth mattered.”

Ecopsychology is based on the fundamental notion that some of our anxiety and ills come from living a lifestyle that has drifted away from being founded in nature connection, and from being in a culture that has lost its way in that it is no longer respectful of planet and…

  ~   “psychology as if the whole earth mattered.”

  Ecopsychology is based on the fundamental notion that some of our anxiety and ills come from living a lifestyle  that has drifted away from its foundation in nature connection, and being in a culture that has lost its way no longer respectful of planet…

Full summer - picture of Depot Town cottage exterior flower/herb garden:



Cottage is One block from the Side Track Restaurant and Depot Town, 1 1/2 blocks from the Ypsi Food Co-op. You'll feel like  you're living 'on the square' from the lower 2 BR flat porch, where you can see the Side Track from your door.  Scroll down for info on house…

Succession Planting (or "Don't Stop Now") - Part 2

(see eNewsletter #21 for part 1)

by Steve Peters

Memorial Day weekend has come and gone, and homeowners throughout North America have followed a time-honored tradition. Over these hallowed three days,…