INDEPENDENCE DAYS #57

My continuation of Sharon Astyk’s now-completed “Independence Days” project (June-Aug 2022), which offered a framework for recognising how we’re building resiliency, community, and accountability that

LINK FEST: 11 APRIL 2023

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. long

LINK FEST: 27 DECEMBER 2022

Last one of the year! pocket guide: Beneficial Insects on NYC Farms (Cornell University). 28-page PDF. Sections on insect parts, beetles (ground, rove, soldier, lady);

Garden Insects: Wasps & Bees of Late and Previously

Growing up, I was a girl who ran screaming from spiders, bees, wasps, some beetles, scary looking bugs. I had some reason for running, if

Pesticides: No, and Yes.

Someone asked me recently whether I used pesticides in my garden. I don’t, and I do. These are my pesticides: Birds, wasps, yellow jackets and