Enhancing Nature’s Cover Crop Fields and Hillsides for Pollinators Fields and Hillsides for Pollinators Enhancing Nature’s Cover Crop Any disused field or space will, after some seasonal winter rain in Southern California, burst forth with verdant spontaneity. We tend to call them weeds, these waves of opportunistic plants successively taking over, one species after...
The Garden – D. Titchenell ...
What Can I Do? I’m just one person. – Sharon Sand, Associate, plot 36, California Public Grants Program Manager at The Trust for Public Land I’m just one person. I compost my food scraps and yard waste, I don’t eat beef, I have solar panels covering our electricity, and I drive a hybrid. Could...
Our LFL A column centering on the Altadena Community Garden’s Little Free Library Autumnal literature, though vastly varied, does tend sometimes toward the wistful departure, often a passing, and sometimes, with the return of Halloween, a bit of spooky foreboding. A few poems come to mind, one such being the one depicting the cursed...
Books are kept or returned and for some that's okay But to an LFL, this one would come back one day. It's been proven that those who stow this kind of books Make embarrassing burps that evoke dirty looks. Some are subject to irksome calamities too And suffer from spillage of ink and of...
To be read on a train or aloud by a brook...
"A garden and a library!" That's all we really need....
The Deck landscape project is proceeding apace and is expected to conclude before December. Little Free Library slab Kelly Fernandez, Chair of the Deck Landscaping Committee, explained that a new goal of increasing the percentage of native plants around the landscaping to 50% has been put in place thanks to the expertise of...
Horticultural Rhyme-scheme Permutations – Stephen Colley, Altadena CA (Used by permission) My garden may have too much mulch or seem a thistly, gristly gulch, have sometimes more manure than flower, its fleshy fruit less sweet than sour. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, in spite of all my anxious care, it gets neglected for a...