Most of us try to find the time to exercise, eat right, and get enough sleep because we know that's all part of a healthy lifestyle. What you may be surprised to know is that volunteering can play a significant role in your well-being.
Everyone is so busy today that it can be hard to find the time to volunteer, but volunteering has surprising benefits for your ...
I have had occasion to write elsewhere about the two gardening extremes, which I refer to as BF and SF. BF stands for brute force, and refers to a garden that achieves its goals by the application of much labor and many resources. SF stands for survival of the fittest, where the garden is established with varying degrees of design and intention, and then allowed to go its own way. Most of our gardens fall somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, but this past summer, I was lucky enough to vi...
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra 1869
I want to talk about lakes, and lawns. Ra...