Today is bitter cold but very sunny, so our 6KW solar system is doing its job. We keep track of that at our Enphase website that tells us what each […]

Our guineas like to run around the yard, take dirt baths in our herb garden and grab a high spot for a good view, usually from the gutters. Today it’s […]

Prairie reconstruction involves taking former farmland and planting it to a mix of native prairie grasses and flowers, referred to as forbs. Because the ground has been farmed for decades, […]

Our permaculture effort faces a number of challenges most do not – it’s on a hill, in the wind and we have a budget. From what we read in books, […]

Draco Hill has about 40 acres of degraded woodlands, with a range from old red oaks, cottonwoods, bass wood and black cherries to invasive autumn olives, garlic mustard and aggressive […]

In three summers Draco Hill has expanded its food gardens from one 24 x 20 foot garden to three approximately 30 x 24 foot ones, all terraced with swales and […]

Guinea fowl are native to Africa but are winning favor here in the U.S. as major consumers of deer ticks, the ticks that carry Lyme Disease. Unfortunately, we recently  learned […]

Tree plantings at Draco Hill include a 3-acre riparian buffer by the river, made up now of tall sycamores and “bonzai’ed” oaks, a result of a deer population out of […]