Gaia Garden

The mowers came yesterday. As I walk in the morning or drive at any time of day, I enjoy looking at the ever-changing array of plants in the...

 I have found a real keeper for our garden line up! Prairiewolf and I started using heirloom varieties of many vegetables over 10 years ag...

'Tis the season for recreational mowing. Moving back after 6 years away, I am struck by how popular this "sport" is here in Ka...

What do I own - truly own? A chance phrase I read made me start thinking about this basic concept. According to the normal concept of the w...

As I was reading Mary Pipher's book Writing to Change the World last night, I came across a startling statistic. On page 3, she writes...

It's the time of year for the Perseid meteor showers. In Mayetta, we would spend several hours on at least one night each year, lying o...

Recently our local paper, The Wichita Eagle , sponsored a little contest at their website, encouraging their readers to submit "hot hai...

About 6 weeks ago I went to the local family practice physician (at Prairiewolf's request) to have my blood pressure checked out. To m...

You can teach an old dog new tricks! And I taught myself a new trick just today. It feels great! After years of growing basil (I love the ...

It's barely into double digit days in July, but already it feels like we've passed the tipping point of summer. Mom mentioned yester...

Since we've moved in, both Prairiewolf and I have occasionally seen a hole that looked suspiciously like armadillo work. We've know...

I just finished Barbara Kingsolver's latest book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle . As I mentioned in an earlier post, it is a book about th...

It's been such a rainy spring and summer here that everything is still bright green. Everything, that is, except the wheat. By now the ...

Yesterday we went to see Sicko , Michael Moore's new movie about health insurance here in the U.S. It wasn't an unbiased piece of j...

For the first time since we got our "stuff", I spent much of yesterday outside, continuing the organic process of settling in to o...

Yesterday I thought I was going to war...so to speak. It started innocently enough. Yesterday morning, Prairiewolf casually asked me why I ...

Since Prairiewolf isn't feeling well tonight, I took our 5 month old setter pup out for a walk around the yard this evening, circling i...

This past winter, as I sat in an empty house adjusting to our return to the prairie from the longleaf pine forest of the deep south, it beca...

Barbara Kingsolver, an author that I've greatly enjoyed in the past, has written a new book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle , about her fami...

Since returning to the Wichita area, I've started glancing through the obituaries every time I read a paper. I think it's because, ...