by Carolyn Crane | Nov 3, 2024 | Native Plants, The Land
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...
by Carolyn Crane | Jul 15, 2024 | Book Reviews
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...
by Carolyn Crane | Jul 5, 2024 | Field Trips
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...
by Carolyn Crane | May 4, 2024 | Native Plants, The Land
I am excited to announce my permaculture internship program. The program runs from May through September. Community college students in SE Michigan are eligible. This is a paid internship, including mileage and meals while working. We learn and teach while we work and...
by Carolyn Crane | Mar 20, 2024 | Field Trips, Native Plants
We are calling it the “winter that wasn’t” here in SE Michigan, so it’s no surprise that spring like weather came to us in late February and early March. Even more than usual, gardening was on everyone’s mind. Those of us who knew better...
