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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No Waste: Capturing The Moment With Rain Barrels
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…
Making Progress In The Garden
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…
