Rachel Butler's Blog – February 2010 Archive (3)

Spring is coming, I promise :)

Today was a beautiful day in Austin, TX. We had a very late dusting of snow this past week. Austinites are like Bambi on a frozen pond on snow days; quite a sight. Of course, I could not help running out in it and playing a bit and more importantly bidding the cold winter a fond farewell. Having just returned from visiting my sister and family in Illinois, it really began to dawn on me how difficult it must be in colder climates to have to wait for Spring to spend time in the garden. I walked… Continue

Added by Rachel Butler on February 28, 2010 at 9:22pm — 1 Comment

Local Food Talk - Feb 18th

The Winter Series rolls on....this Thursday, Feb. 18 is the first of the 2 sessions on Local Food - a most important topic for peak oil, nutrition, business development, our environment, our future. This Thursday features and honors our Local Food Producers and Gardeners:

Brenton Johnson of Johnson's Backyard Garden - from a small city lot to C-TX largest organic Local Food CSA…

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Added by Rachel Butler on February 17, 2010 at 10:54pm — No Comments

Permaculture....is Rache just making up words again?

I confess... I am a nerd. If someone asks me what something is, especially while I have internet access, I may pull the old "let me Google that for you" trick. The truth is, the very first time I heard the word permaculture was only a few short months ago. Oh the rush of excitement... to learn a new word!! One so new even my spell check doesn't recognize it.

In short, permaculture is a term coined by Australians… Continue

Added by Rachel Butler on February 11, 2010 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment