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Kate took her ailing sewing machine up to St. Cloud.\u00a0 She bought it there.\u00a0 On the way home she brought maid-rites, a taste of Iowa burger.\u00a0 Maid-rites have a crumbly hamburger instead of a patty, a little bit like sloppy joes without barbecue sauce.\u00a0 Kate had not been far from home for several days with this illness.\u00a0 She’s on the mend now.<\/p>\n
The new plantings, shrubs and trees, need water these next few weeks, before it gets cold.\u00a0 Their roots will uncurl and extend into the soil, go deeper and wider.\u00a0 By next spring they should need no extra care.\u00a0 That’s part of the idea behind permaculture, a maintenance free or low maintenance landscape.\u00a0 Permaculture achieves this in several ways.\u00a0 Plant guilds, plants that complement each other planted together, and plants native to the eco-system are two primary strategies for achieving this goal.\u00a0 Productive plants, aided by plant guilds, and native to the region make them naturally disease resistant and adapted to the particular moisture and soil requirements of your site.<\/p>\n
Even so, they still need to get established, just like all those college freshmen throughout the land, uprooted from home and having to become part of a new place.<\/p>\n
All this meant really long hoses since we have now begun to plant beyond the range our irrigation system.\u00a0 Since these plants won’t require additional water in the future, it doesn’t make sense to provide new irrigation.<\/p>\n
A few limbs and one tree also had to come down to make sure some of the new plants thrive.<\/p>\n
I checked the bees today, too.\u00a0 Still little honey.\u00a0 I’ve provided the hive and the bees have worked all season, so I’m not unhappy.\u00a0 Even so, I hope next year I can get some honey.\u00a0 Don’t know right now what I need to do differently, if anything.<\/p>\n
A good part of the afternoon I’ve spent reading Politics In Minnesota weekly reports, a subscription service focused on the ins and outs of Minnesota politics, especially at the state level.\u00a0 On Monday I’ll attend a Minnesota Environmental Partnership meeting that will try to assess the political context for environmental issues at the legislature next year.\u00a0 I’m reading ahead.\u00a0 The context is critical when considering electoral and legislative politics.\u00a0 Not so much when pushing issue campaigns, at least not in the early stages.\u00a0 To win, though, requires sensitivity to the political context in which the issue must be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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