by Carolyn Crane | Sep 28, 2025 | Native Plants, The Land
The journey to earn my MAEAP verification began when I visited Susan Beecher’s land in Chelsea on a Wild Ones tour in 2022. Susan had a native meadows, trees, rain gardens, a flourishing ecosystem. My original goal of creating a traditional farm was already...
by Carolyn Crane | Jul 25, 2025 | The Land
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,...
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...
