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Gardens of Telluride

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Christy

Once you arrive in Telluride, there is little need for a car, which makes for great sight-seeing on foot.  When I was last here in spring, the flowers were just starting to get going and there was still snow on the mountains. Now the gardens are in full bloom and everyone is making the most of their gardening space.  While I haven’t seen too many vegetable gardens, I have been charmed by the plenitude of cuteness in every corner.  I thought I’d share some photos from this beautiful mountain town:

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Gardenerd.com on LA Times.com Today

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Christy

Just caught sight of a post on the LA Times Blog in the Home Section about our upcoming Fall Garden Planning Workshop.  Check it out here:

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Huntington Revisited

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Christy

As a guilty pleasure, or let’s say…a business expense, I renewed my long-lost membership to the Huntington Library and Gardens this spring.  I haven’t been in years (since gas prices went up – it’s a bit of a drive to get there from where I live). In fact, I hadn’t been back since the Huntington opened their Chinese and Children’s’ Gardens.  I was really looking forward to seeing the “new to me” installations, and sauntering through the rose garden and other old stomping grounds.

Let me tell you, it didn’t disappoint.  My first stop was the Shakespeare Garden, which …
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Japanese / Vegetable Garden in Sierra Madre

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Christy

This spring, Gardenerd has helped many new gardeners get on their way.  Whether it be through classes, consulting or food garden design, it’s been a delight to watch people get bitten by the gardening bug and begin growing their own food.

One such delight came last month, when we finished installing a new garden in Sierra Madre.  At first it was going to be a simple, straight forward garden with a few raised beds to maximize growing space.  But as the process went on, the home owners realized that they really wanted to incorporate their dream garden – a …
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Gardenerd at Esalen

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Christy

As I write this, I’m sitting in the lodge at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.  When last I was here, I was particpating in a 5-rhythms workshop.  This time I’m on the teaching side of things.  Like a miracle that fell in my lap, I was invited to co-teach a workshop on the Heart of Organic Gardening with Shirley Ward, the fabulous woman in charge of the farm and garden at Esalen.  With Shirley and a few other guest teachers, we’ve been immersed in the wonder of Esalen’s soil structure, composting production, seed-starting and transplanting schedule, …
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White House to Install a Vegetable Garden

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Christy

Got some exciting news today.  It’s official, the White House is going to install a vegetable garden on March 20th, the first day of spring!

For those who have been following the push to get the Obamas to plant a victory garden, www.eattheview.org has been a major influence in making this happen, along with Alice Waters and many others.  Petitions were signed, letters were sent, and the new administration listened.  Here is the article from the New York Times today:

Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden

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Eco-Farm in Santa Cruz

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Christy

Back in January, during our
California Adventure trip, we spent a day on campus at University of
California, Santa Cruz.  The campus is built within a forest, so you
could be walking along a pathway and suddenly find yourself in the
center of a cathedral of redwoods. 

One of our stops at UC Santa Cruz was the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS). “The mission of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food
Systems (the Center) is to research, develop, and advance sustainable
food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sound,
economically viable, socially responsible, nonexploitative, and that
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The Gardens of Esalen

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Christy

We took a trip up the coast, our California Adventure we called it, through San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and then we visited Napa before heading down Interstate 5 to get home.  We were blessed with the most beautiful weather, the kind, as my husband says, that explains the reason for high real estate prices. 

We saw monarch butterflies fluttering in the trees and elephant seals basking in the sunshine along the shore.  It seemed to be a good time for all things natural.  The gardens were no exception.  We spent 3 days at …
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