Posts by Travis
Exciting News + Brief Update
I’m SO incredibly excited to finally announce that I will be attending Cornell University to study plant science beginning this August! You might have noticed that I took a hiatus from social media and this website for the past several months. Here’s a brief update: I finished up my last year of high school in…
Read MoreA Look At My Summer Garden
Hi friends! I took a hiatus from blogging due to a crazy school year (senior year is complete!) but now that summer is officially here, I wanted to resume posting periodically. I will confess that the garden has become a little more wild and wooly over the past few months, my rigorous academic year requiring…
Read MoreHow I Created A Self-Sustaining Garden
Recently, I attended a conference where Jean-Martin Fortier and Joel Salatin spoke. It was a great experience meeting people interested in the same things as me. Of course, the main topic of the convention was growing plants and animals to sell at a market (market gardening/farming), but almost everyone there was an avid gardener as…
Read MoreProduct Scouted: Barebones Hori Hori Knife
Are you ever in need of a sharp, portable digging tool that can also serve as a knife, twine cutter, bottle opener, measuring device, or stake hammer? If your answer was yes to even one of those questions (even the bottle opener), then you must check out the Barebones Living Hori Hori knife. The name Hori…
Read MoreFive Tips For Scouting Out Plants On A Budget
Imagine a candy store filled with all of your favorite candies, but only having the money to buy one. How would you go about choosing the right one? What if you wanted multiple types or couldn’t decide? Ahh, the frustration! This is the same sort of dilemma that many budget-conscious gardeners run into on their…
Read MoreIs Time An Issue? Take The Ten Minute Challenge With Me!
Whew! Life has been busy. Between school, keeping up my garden, writing posts, working a part-time job, taking photos, editing the photos… you get the idea. Since I’ve been so short on time, I took a brief stroll through my garden today to see what was happening. Can you believe that in just a couple…
Read MoreFive Underutilized Native Plants For Your Garden
Happy Earth Day everyone! To celebrate the beautiful world we live in, I visited my local nature preserve and and gathered some pictures of five cool native plants that are underutilized in the garden setting. I will keep the writing brief – this will be a mostly visual post. Here we go! Cinnamon Ferns…
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