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Friday, October 19, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
In my last post I gave an overview and recap of Spontaneous Construction, but here are a few more pictures of the table and chairs we built from old garden tools and reclaimed cedar fence rails. For more information about this project, click here.These chairs and table are one of many items constructed in 6 hours on Saturday that will be auctioned of at the Home ReSource Benefit Auction on October 19 (here is a link to the Facebook...
Sunday, September 30, 2012
What another great year at Spontaneous Construction (SponCon)- Home ReSource's signature event. This is a day-long building contest using materials found at Home ReSource. SponCon has been dubbed a "celebration of creative re-invention." It is a unique and wonderful event and many of us look forward to it every year.Here is a link to our Facebook album with photos and captions from the day.Same team- 2011 SponCon Project, a mobile...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
This might not sound too much like a garden blog post, but it most certainly is. Our garden- the landscaping and vegetables we grow is our attempt at living lightly. The goal of trying to buy things more locally is an extension of that attempt. There are many reasons for not buying things made in China, ranging from human rights concerns, to the distance the items have to travel, to supporting local businesses, and I'm not going to elaborate on them here- others have said it better. This project of mine started a month or...
Monday, September 10, 2012
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE This is Part Three of a Six- Part Series of Re-purposed Garden tool, Garden things.To recap:Part 1: Garden Tool, Garden TrellisPart 2: Garden Tool, Garden Gate Part 3: Garden Tool, Garden ArborI like hand tools, especially old ones. Old ones, inherently, in order to survive, must have...
Friday, September 7, 2012
It’s been a dry one this summer- throughout the west. No surprise, I know everyone has been dealing with it and hearing about it. In Missoula we received 0.04” of precipitation in August* (for those of you scoring at home, that is 1.0 mm). Not a lot of moisture and that is the same amount as our home garden received, and I wouldn't want it any other way.Now is the time I think native plant garden shines- this is the reason...
Monday, August 13, 2012
SponCon is back for 2012 and better than ever. The annual Home ReSource festival of creative re-use will be on September 29. And yes, Butterfly Properties (our garden coaching business) is again a proud sponsor, but more importantly we are competing in the building contest again. Our team remains the same as last year (me, Barry and Marilyn) and we have another garden project in store (to find out what we are building, you will...
Monday, August 6, 2012
Here is my latest project- a repurposed garden tool, garden gate. If you recall, this is not on my prescribed list of garden projects for 2012, but this project actually represents me creeping up on a bigger project- a fence for the front yard. It is kind of a long story how, but trust me, I am making progress on that project, slowly. Before- a fine gate.This gate is a replacement for a perfectly good gate I built about 12 years ago....
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Several years ago, our house was on a garden tour sponsored by a local nursery. We were very flattered to be a part of this tour. The organizer of the garden tour and owner of the nursery wrote a description of each garden, including a title and a blurb summarizing the garden and the experience. He called our yard a “Lifestyle Garden”. I had never heard this term before nor have I seen it since. Initially I was puzzled by the term and thought...
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