Episode-108- Make Your Own Food And Flowers – Part 2

Watch and learn how to make gardens that produce food and flowers to enjoy at home. It’s been hot and over 100 degrees F or 37 Celsius. Gardening is not for the faint at heart this time of year and it’s been great to have a lot of the gardens made wood bed or hugelkultur style. This […]

Episode-103- Lawn Care For Dead Patch With Hugelkultur Swales

This is how I repaired a long term dead patch of lawn with swales built hugelkulutr style. New Growth in just 3 weeks! This used to be an unsightly ugly dead patch of nothing. Everything green now used to be just plain old dead dirt. The right soil mix, the right seeds, hugelkultur and the […]

Episode-98- Grow Strawberries And Make Strawberry Jam

           Since it is spring /early summer in northern Virginia a lot of the episodes have been of the permaculture gardening flavor but I assure you that it is all for making a better life. In this kind of weather I want to be outside as much as possible. During the […]

Episode-95- Bring Dead Lawn Back To Life

How To Green A Dead Patch Of Lawn  Integrate Rather Than Segregate – “Many hands make light work” By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other. Every time I attempted to repair the dead patch ended in failure as there was

Episode-87- Low Cost Lawn And Garden Care

         This episode is part permaculture and part to do list home series because it speaks to using renewable resources and at the same time accomplishing a weekly chore. Expensive lawn care program not necessary! My program costs $94 per 2 years which is an 85% savings over what others have proposed Grass […]

Episode-78- Produce More At Home To Retire Early

Producing things for consumption at home is contrary to the American way of life. the us economy depends on consumer spending for at least 70% of all consumption. That’s outrageous and horrible. Americans have become dependent on too many complex systems just to get by for an ordinary day. Starbucks coffee in the morning, Chipotle […]

Episode-69- Start Seeds With Soil Blocks For Easy Planting

Less than 3 weeks until the last spring frost. Feels like it may have already passed but I’m not taking any chances. Still using April 20 for northern Virginia. What’s been sowed in soil blocks so far: green onions (lots of them), parsley, chives, tomatoes, hot peppers, asters, four o’clocks, marigold, thyme, oregano, okra, chamomile, […]