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the lure of the garden

Posted: Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 in land stewardship | 1 Comment »

By avoiding the need for major cultural change, garden reasoning of this type overlaps with today’s probusiness, libertarian calls for privatization and for unleashing the market. All such thinking resists the notion that America’s individualistic consumer-oriented culture is materially flawed. All of it rejects the worry, and the evidence, that human arrogance is […]

mowing

Posted: Monday, February 4th, 2008 in land stewardship | 6 Comments »

When I moved out of the city I thought that I was out of the grass mowing business forever. However I am belatedly coming to the realization that this is not to be.
Most of our little 8 acre spread is woods and little or no grass grows under this canopy. Even around the house itself […]

presidential prairie restoration

Posted: Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in land stewardship | Comments Off

A fews months back I wrote about touring a native prairie restoration in Crawford. Now the owner of that prairie, Mike Williams, has been featured in a news video about a similar prairie restoration underway on the ranch owned by President Bush.
You can view that video via a link at this story. […]

posted

Posted: Friday, October 26th, 2007 in land stewardship | 1 Comment »

Last week some friends came by with canoes and  and we fished for awhile on the lake. While we were there I noticed a young woman and a child sitting on the shore. They waved and I waved back.
From the water the shoreline all looks the same to me and I can’t […]

surveyors

Posted: Thursday, November 9th, 2006 in land stewardship | 4 Comments »

Okay, today we are going to locate the northeastern corner of our property.
Over on that side there is one corner of our property where I’ve never been quite certain about the exact boundary. The property line plunges down a cliff to the lakeshore and runs along the waterfront for 297 feet before coming back […]

 

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