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Authors, Gurus, and Changes

11/23/2014

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Michael Phillips and Rosemary Gladstar.  Need i say more?  Since this is a blog yeah of course I should. :)  Michael Phillips is definitely my go to guy in figuring out how to best grow the orchard holistically and beyond organically.  For the herbs its Rosemary Gladstar all the way.  Can't say good enough things about them and highly recommend their books
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Glad I was able to get the guild covered with leaves. 3 or 4 days later it looked like this:
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One of our neighbors told us he was glad we were getting their road rid of leaves, but that it would be a penny a leaf.
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Mulch

11/22/2014

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As this picture attests, we are almost finished mulching this fruit, herb and flower guild with leaves.  Truckloads of leaves were brought into the guild and then shredded using our push mower.  The reasoning behind this went beyond providing a nice cardiovascular workout and mystifying the neighbors!  First, it will provide a base layer to suppress the grasses, and second, it will deliver an abundance of nutrients to the soil.  In the spring, which is a mere 4 months away,  we hope to add an additional layer of wood chips over the leaves.  How are we going to get all those wood chips?  I'm glad that you asked.  We signed up to have wood chips delivered free @ www.freemulchabouttrees.com
This website hooks you up with a local tree service to give us their wood chips instead of putting them in a landfill somewhere.  Please check it out to see if this is something that perhaps you or someone you know could use. 
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    I am T-  the other half -of the dream-wrangler team, in the Orchard adventure.  
    Mother to 3 amazing adult sons, and grandmother to the biggest rays of sunshine in our lives. Our oldest grand-daughter, we used to call "Little A", but now she is medium to tall-sized.  She is "Miss A" now. The last couple of  years she has greeted a brother, "Little R" , and this past fall, "Little Miss I" and another mister, who will be known as "Little K", arriving any day now!

    Then there's H.- I'll let him elaborate at some point,  but in my opinion, he's the best seaweed wrangler west of the Atlantic. He remains our artist. in residence, and contines to astound T with his penchant for unusual garden-type installations.  He lives to dance a jig with his grand kids, and teach them all about gardens, growing and such. 



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