I love radio! So when Sierra Magazine invited me to answer gardening questions, I was game. Kanchan from Spiral Gardens joined me and here’s the show–we are the second guests. First up is a conversation with a Johnny’s seed company, then me and Kanchan. Check it out: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/overstory/overstory-resistance-fertile ..read more

It’s cherry season!! There are two sweet cherry trees on 28th Street, and my they have grown. One of them was in the fire we experienced November of 2017, and got pretty charred on one side because the redwood shed burned to the ground, and they were close together. The trees also suffer from ants setting aphids on the leaves. Sometimes the leaves curl beyond recognition, especially on the tips. And man, they really want to grow tall. I keep ’em pretty short with summer pruning. Despite these problems, the cherry trees are fruiting and surviving. There’s something about cherry trees–I associa ..read more

It’s been a weird couple of months. Feels like a horror movie, and we all want to know: when will this end? For me as an urban farmer, it’s been a weird couple years. I had been an urban farmer but due to various circumstances, I had slowly let everything go: the rabbits, the goats, the chickens, the bees, and finally the garden. I became a Costco shopper and I grew ornamentals. Why, I thought, should I raise chickens, when I can just buy eggs from the store? Deep in my prepper mind, I knew that the day would come when the knowledge base I had collected might come in handy again, but but I wil ..read more