Wild Ones Seed Swap

I swear that this isn’t turning into an all-gardening, all-the-time blog, but I had to report on my very first seed swap, hosted by Wild Ones ~ Capital Region New York at Thacher State Park. Okay, first? Before I even made it to the seed swap, I found out yet another way I’d managed to … [Read more…]

Greening Our Yard

I am long overdue with an update about trying to get more native plants into our yard. I explained in the summer that we’d started our adventures with greening our yards by planting a strip of native plant seeds and skipping the early spring mowing, efforts that had some success as well as some drawbacks. … [Read more…]