My Local Garden

We planted hundreds of pounds of garlic cloves yesterday. Varieties: Music and German White. Thank you Yuriy, Andy and Roman for inviting us to help with the planting. 💚🌟🌎

Guardians of the Planet: 16 Women Environmentalists You Should Know 16 Trailblazing Female Environmentalists Who Have Changed the World.

Vegetable growing and backyard chickens: Gardening, farming booms during coronavirus pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has ignited interest in gardening and raising chickens as homeowners pass the time and seek self-sustainability.

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"Who" thinks mosaic stepping stones are great in the garden? (get it?!)

The largest full moon of 2012 happens this Saturday, but it's OK if you don't really notice. The moon doesn't really get bigger, it just gets closer to Earth (but you knew that).

At 11:40pm EasternTime on Saturday, according to the Griffith Observatory Sky Report, the moon will be at its closest point in its orbit to the Earth this year.

To be precise, Earth and moon will be just 221,801 miles apart -- more than 17,000 miles closer than average.

NASA's Science News calculates the moon's appearance Saturday will be "as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full moons of 2012."

EarthSky gives a lengthy explanation of the term and concludes with this: "Bottom line: The full moon of May 5, 2012, is the closest and largest full moon of this year. Some will call it a supermoon."

But that doesn't mean you'll be able to notice the difference. "There are no rulers floating in the sky to measure lunar diameters," the NASA story says. "Hanging high overhead with no reference points to provide a sense of scale, one full moon can seem much like any other."

And one downside to the big moon bonanza: The super/biggest moon of the year will likely obscure the Eta Aquarid meteor shower set to peak this weekend.

We went to Well-Sweep Farm yesterday - what a great resource for herbs! The owner is a doll.

Join us on Sunday to learn how to build a chicken coop and chicken tractor and how to raise chickens!

Permaculture Network of NJ Learn how to build a chicken coop and chicken tractor and how to raise chickens. Class will be hosted in Matt's backyard. a permaculture paradise. Rain or shine. Will be held outdoors. Class Fee

30,000 honeybees removed from Cape May attic CAPE MAY - Honeybee populations may be shrinking around the world, but that wasn't the case at Victoria Clayton's circa 1866 house, where a bee expert spent much of Thursday removing a huge wax...

Check out Wendell E. Berry delivering the 41st Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, entitled “It All Turns on Affection.”

NEH 2012 Jefferson Lecture TV World Wide Events