Landscaping

STORIES

Get to Know Your Birds

We've been enjoying getting to know the birds that live on our property -- there are quite a few different species here since our land...

Climate-Friendly Landscaping

Climate-Friendly Landscaping One of our favorite ongoing projects is transitioning the landscape in our yard to native California plants....

Native Trees

We are fortunate to have become the human tenders of a 5-acre portion of a mixed conifer forest. This particular micro-climate at 9000 ft...

Planting an Orchard

One of the first projects we undertook on our new property was to hire a neighbor with a skid steer to dig swales in the sunny...

Wildflowers

Other than our food plants, we have committed to fostering 100% native plants on our land, and we have been thrilled with the number and...

Creating a garden

We hired a neighbor to build several raised beds for us, with hardware cloth fastened to the bottom to exclude the pocket gophers, and to...