Hello Fellow Gardeners and Want-To-Be-Gardeners! The garden is flourishing and I have the pictures to prove it! Take a photographic journey below: Left Picture: radicchio (right) next to napa cabbage (left). Right Picture: fennel Left:…
John’s Personal Blog- February 2015
Hello My Friends! The new year is whizzing by and it is almost March! Here in south Florida, it is high season- which means that it is the height of the social season and the tourist season. Lots of…
Prairie Garden Wildlife
“We cannot in fairness rail against those who destroy the rain forests or threaten the spotted owl when we have made our own backyards uninhabitable” -from Sara Stein’s book entitled Noah’s Garden Visitors to my prairie garden! Over the…
Thursday Feb. 26, 2015: Dr. Z Lecture at the Palm Beach Zoo
What does urban agriculture have to do with wildlife conservation? Everything! Join Dr. Z at the Palm Beach Zoo on Thursday, February 26th, 6-8 pm. Advanced tickets required, seating is limited. There will be copies of the hardbound edition of his new book…
What’s New in my Garden: January 2015
Hello! January was a wonderful month in my backyard food garden. In south Florida, our gardens are producing most abundantly this time of year. Below are pictures of some of what I have been harvesting. This includes tomatoes. I have…
Mystery on the Side of the Shed
December 2010. This is a story that is going to be told to the grandkids around a campfire. Can you explain how this object found its way to the side of the shed? It was a fine December day to…
Garden Label Grudges
APRIL 2011. Sometimes someone has a grudge against you and you will never know why. It was “Spring” and I decided to plant some squash, cucumbers and a few other things. I usually didn’t have luck growing over the…
Attracting Wildlife: Careful What You Ask For…!
OCTOBER 2011. Often, dreams end up being torn down by the very things they idolize. Once you get past the icky part of the story, you may find a profound lesson there. Several years ago, when I was dreaming grand…
A Few of the Mysterious Happenings from my Backyard…
Here you will find curious and true stories from my backyard. Although some of these strange happenings have reasonable explanations, others are beyond even the most rich imagination! Enjoy!
Friendly Chats with Strangers
I was born and raised in a region of the country that is like no other. It was settled by different ethnic immigrant groups, a century and a half ago, who created villages on the rolling prairie landscape. Because of…