Spontaneous Construction 2012 Recap

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...

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A new project: buy nothing made in China for 1 year

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...

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Repurposed Garden Tool Garden Arbor

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...

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Hot and dry in the wildlife garden, and just the way I like it

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...

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