Offer critters shelter and they will come When we bought our three-hectare ranch (approximately seven-and-a-half acres) about 13 years ago, the land had been ravaged by nature and man, the victim of decades of erosion and overgrazing. We decided to let two-thirds of the land lie fallow, a gesture that in current eco-speak in Britain …
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The bees, and honey, are coming back
Yesterday, after two years of neglect that Stew blames on the Covid pandemic, political unrest in the U.S. and a misalignment of the stars, he and Gabriel, a local guy who's helping us with garden chores while the regular gardener Ulises paints the two bathrooms, went to check our four beehives, sitting forlorn amid the …
Tentative summer gardening forecast: Tomato downpours with frequent gazpachos
On Saturday we returned from San Antonio, and it felt not a second too soon. For the five days we were there daily high temperatures hovered around the low 100s and were aggravated by the drought that's engulfed the southwestern U.S. and the northern states of Mexico for months, if not years. I feared we'd …
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