Beltane New Moon (Hungry Ghost) The potatoes have mounds around the growing plants and the hilled up earth from their trenches has leveled out. The bush beans I planted there last week have begun to germinate and I plan to plant more bush beans tomorrow if the weather is ok. While checking fruit on our […]
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Beltane Full Dyan Moon Paula Westmoreland from Ecological Gardens came out today and gave us a walk through, explaining the plants and their relationships. The real distinctiveness of permaculture lies in developing and nurturing those relationships, using plants together in ways that are mutually beneficial. An easy to understand example is the familiar legume family, […]
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