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That Time Of Year Again (Seed Starting!)

February 15, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

My husband and I had our coffee on the front porch this morning. Rocking in rocking chairs, we plotted what we wanted to get accomplished this weekend (for once, he is taking the weekend off from work). Why is this special? Because the last few weeks have been marked by icy weather, and here’s what…

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Filed Under: Austin, Kitchen Gardening, Nature Tagged With: baby watermelon, bok choy, potatoes, seed starting, spring planting, sweet potatoes, swiss chard, tomatoes

Alternative Living Spaces & No Waste: One Year In A Dumpster

November 9, 2013 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

On these virtual pages you’ve seen tales of folks living in school buses, in shipping containers and on trailers, but an Austin professor is taking things even further, at least for a year. Jeff Wilson, environmental science professor and dean at Huston Tillotson University, will be residing in a re-furbished dumpster. He’ll have only 33 square feet…

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Filed Under: Alternative Living Spaces, Austin, No Waste

No Waste: Capturing The Moment With Rain Barrels

July 27, 2013 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

In Central Texas, we’ve got plenty of sunshine. Also, plenty of bugs — this time of year you feel like you’re wading through a sea of grasshoppers as you walk through the yard, as they scatter with high jumps all around you. What we don’t have enough of is rain. It’s really quite dire. People…

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Filed Under: Austin, Kitchen Gardening, Nature, No Waste Tagged With: kitchen gardening, rain barrels, rain collection, rain water collection, solar powered watering, water collection

Making Progress In The Garden

February 21, 2013 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

This part of the process is called “hardening off,” when I take my wee precious seedlings and start putting them out into the big bad sunny windy world — so they can get used to how life is going to be when they get planted this weekend. They’re all pretty “leggy,” which means their stems…

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Filed Under: Austin, Kitchen Gardening

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