The Blog
Updates, Field Trips, and Other Meanderings
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm. Everything dances.”
Pilgrimage to Stone Circle
Stone Circle is an outdoor venue consisting of 88 concentric boulders Terry Wooten hauled from the woods adjacent to his home, property that has been in his wife Wendi’s family for generations. It took years to collect the boulders. Centered in the circle, a huge fire pit.
Celebrating MAEAP Verification
I thought hard for a moment. Josh said that it seemed that my priority was habitat. And that was the land verification. “You’re right!” I said. And it was decided.
Summer 2025 in the East Meadow
Three years ago this coming fall, I killed my lawn and sowed an acre of native flower and grass seed on the east acre between my house and road. They say a rewilded meadow sleeps the first summer, creeps the second, and leaps the third. I thought it leapt last summer,...
Meet Zone Four: Food Forest in Progress
Part One: May 2024 This spring it was finally time to focus on Zone Four, the Future Food Forest. I attended native tree sales in Monroe and Washtenaw Counties, and came away with small saplings of these trees: meadowsweet, choke cherry, wild plum, pasture rose, and...
“Three Keys” by Laura Pritchett: A Book Review
Ammalie has no idea she is adorable. Whether she is combing her hair with a fork on a Nebraska freeway, rearranging her homemade first aid kits on a borrowed living room floor, or sending cryptic postcards, she is not aware of her charms. Her readers are though, from...
You Can Take the Woman Out of the Watershed, but You Can’t Take the Watershed Out of the Woman
Recently I went out west and visited my old stomping grounds: the west slope of the Sierra Nevada. For most of my life I lived there in the South Yuba River Watershed. I came to learn a lot about my watershed, as I think every one should. Our watersheds, literally and...