Published!

Guess who will have an article about keyhole garden beds published in the May/June issue of BackHome magazine? Coming soon to a newsstand near you! Or at their website.

Back Troubles

Well, genius McMe was outside double digging a garden bed on the second hottest day of the year, got dehydrated, and popped a disk lifting a rock out of the bed. It is not so bad, could be a lot worse actually, so Thank God for that!

Have you ever ruptured a disk in your spine? It is a funny feeling. Kind of like if you squeezed one of those little packets of grape jelly you find at a hotel breakfast buffet. Squeezed it until it popped open and shot some out. But it happens in your back. Not pleasant.

Nope, won't be doing much lifting for a few weeks.

Natural Agriculture and Me

Ever since I heard about natural agriculture and read Masanobu Fukuoka's book "One Straw Revolution" I have been interested in the theory. Stop tilling the fields, work with nature, not against it, use less time and labor, and so on.

There is only one problem....

I like digging! I love the way a freshly double dug bio-intensive bed looks! The smell of the freshly tilled ground, counting the earthworms, the neat and tidy look of it... I just love it! I even love to weed the garden- I just don't have time to do it!

So I think I will continue to double dig for now at least, and just admire my Natural Agriculture practicing friends.