Wild Flowers in my yard

The first thing you should know is that I live in a desert. So a lot of the typical flowers don't grow here naturally. Which means that the flowers that do grow here give me a kind of thrill, usually. They're just so lovely, and fleeting even more than flowers often are. So, here's some of the flowers that grow in my yard with no effort from me.

Food Education and Gardens

I find it hard to be positive about food education. I don't know why. I suppose it's because I want to be about awesome food that we can eat and make and far too often it ends up as 'another food we can't eat or make because the food industry or farming industry has done something bizarro with it.'

That's kind of depressing.

So I'm trying to, well, think about the good things about making my own food, instead. I like to garden. I'm bad at it, but I like it. I do it differently than most, but I still like it.

Garden doom

I'm pretty bummed today. Came back from our trip to visit hubby and a packrat had destroyed my squash and sunflowers. I mean, totally destroyed. It ate all but one squash in the entire garden patch down to the ground.

All this dirt used to be squash. :-(

Herb garden

A tiny slice out of my herb garden.

Messy, isn't it?

I show this because a lot of people have much tidier herb gardens and I thought I'd share the other kind. This is the kind where things are planted next to and among each other, sometimes due to space constraints and sometimes deliberately to help each other. It's got mulch that's made from the wild grasses and non-toxic weeds in my yard. Some of the herbs are deliberately left to go to seed to grow next year. But it's doing great, so far.

Learning to Wait

There's something to be said for learning to wait for things.

Not that I'm not as impatient as the next person sometimes, but I've been gaining an even greater appreciation of waiting. Gardening has played a big part in that.