Brunette Gardens Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.com We’ve latched onto the idea of “permaculture,” drawn to the movement’s emphasis on independence through a garden stocked with human-use plants. So rather than only enjoying the sight and smell of the spring season’s plethora of petals, we challenge ourselves to make use of them as well. 

There’s a new trend on TikTok. Mercy. I wrote that sentence, and I realized that is the modern equivalent of “Scientists recently…”. It’s that sentence that you know is going to end badly. Or as someone put it to me once, “If you only watch the first act of the movie, the new scientific discovery works out just fine!” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers o...

After an overall mild but strangely prolonged winter, we’re finally looking spring squarely in the buds. And that means it’s time to put the past three months of dreaming and planning into action. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.com There is a Chinese MMA fighter named Xu Xiaodong. Xu is not a professional fighter. He is more in the top-tier amateur. He lost his most famous bout against Andrew Pi even after he broke his opponent’s arm with a kick! So, he is never going to appear on TV in a million-dollar MMA fight.

In our continuing effort to “ collapse now and avoid the rush ” here at Brunette Gardens, for our recent road trip , I decided to shift to paper maps. But first, I needed to obtain one. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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It had been about a billion years since Anthony and I took a road trip. Sure, back in our footloose-and-fancy free youth, we frequently engaged in this great American pastime. I’ve made more than one trip from the Midwest to Key West and back, and once a bunch of girlfriends and I piled into a van and trekked to the Grand Canyon via Route 66, our Thelma-and-Louise gal-pal sojourn, minus the tragic...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.com I always like to credit where I can, and this particular truism came from a former boss of mine named Mary Kirchoff. Mary was a VP at Wizards of the Coast, in charge of the “publishing line.” This meant that novels, roleplaying games, and magazines were under her. This was a sweet little business that was worth s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.com I suppose I’ve just cemented my status as a true nature nerd with this act: As promised when I invited all paid subscribers to witness this in person, I volunteered to speak at the Shutterbee Symposium on the topic of sheet mulching.

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Kitchen Gadget Links Metal sieve press with a wooden pestle . A potato ricer . Foley food mill . Spiced Persimmon Cookies Ingredients * 1 cup persimmon pulp * 1 tsp. baking soda * 1 tsp. allspice or ground spicebush berries * 1 tsp. ground fresh or powdered ginger * 1 stick butter, softened * 1/2 cup raw turbinado sugar * 1/2 cup dark brown sugar * 1 tsp. vanilla extract * 1 egg * 1 cup whole whea...

My grandfather was a dairy farmer. When my family went to visit him, we would inevitably end up helping him with the farm. Sometimes we would mend fences, or herd cattle, or feed cattle, or milk. It depended on what needed to be done, and (it being a farm) something always needed to be done. Very often, as we were coming close to finishing a job, my grandfather would intone, “gednuff fer oo es fur...

As many of you know by now, Lisa and I are of the “ Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse ” school of thought. But we are also practical. How long will it take for things to get really bad? Weeks? Months? Years? Longer? Who knows? Not us. And if you think you know how events are going to play out, you’re probably wrong. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.brunettegardens.com Those of you who’ve been following us for a while know I love garden plants with “stacked functions.” This permaculture phrase basically means “plants that multitask.” They have more than one use; for example, native violets are a pretty, soil-stabilizing ground cover, a host plant for fritillary butterflies, and...

So far this late summer, I’ve encouraged you to plant now for a fall crop of carrots as well as put in some asparagus , the perfect perennial for years of spears to come. This time I want to talk about alliums. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.brunettegardens.com/subscribe

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