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The Joy of Planting Trees: Try this at home today!

Posted on Oct 30, 2014

The Joy of Planting Trees: Try this at home today!

Some people have a bucket list of things to see and do. I’ve never made a list but do have a bucket goal of seeing how many good trees I can plant in this lifetime.  Planting trees is one of the happiest things to do in a day and I highly recommend it to lift your mood for years to come.

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Newsletter post: Wild turkeys, cover crops, yard art with chickens and rainy day walks

Posted on Sep 19, 2014

Newsletter post: Wild turkeys, cover crops, yard art with chickens and rainy day walks

Greetings from Larrapin Garden and welcome to the newsletter post.

Let me start with a tangent and say that “Cutting Celery” is something I will definitely grow again next year. It’s a celery usually grown for leaves rather than stems and unlike the celery that we get at the store, will grow well here. I picked it up as a pretty seedling at the farmers market out of curiosity. Since then I find myself going out to snip stems and leaves whenever I need some celery in the kitchen and there is none. Which is often for me for some reason. Cutting celery came in as a surprise workhorse in the garden this year.

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