This joint is jumpin’! Scattergood students and two brave teachers are camped out at our riverside campground and have broken in the fire pit and stumps we set up with […]

Yes, that’s snow, and it’s April 23, 2013, and if you look carefully, you’ll see garlic coming up in the foreground. It started as rain, went to sleet and then […]

Pictures can’t capture all the work we accomplished today but I’ll give it a shot. We started with huge piles of wood chips, a few muddy, crooked swales, a big […]

Well, the weather just won’t cooperate. After a week of rain, more rain and even snow are forecast for overnight tonight. So we’re moving the Permaculture Workshop to Saturday which should be […]

We really did. We bought a farm. It’s a beautiful 143 acres just 10 miles north of Iowa City and a couple of miles east of Dick Schwab’s round barns […]

Can’t complain about the rain…but… We’re watching the forecast and still expect to see the more than 20 people who’ve committed to our permaculture workshop will be out playing in the dirt […]

Paul and I have been preparing the permaculture bed for our visitors/worker bees who will be attending the workshop April 19. This involves Contouring the slope to maximize water retention. […]

Great burn today – three sites, perfect weather and wind, and couldn’t have asked for better from the crew at Earthview Environmental or Mother Nature. Nothing else need be said […]