Year of Plenty

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Placed on September 2nd, 2008

located in Spokane

A Year of Plenty A Spokane family's adventure of consuming everything; local, used, homegrown, and homemade.

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posted on
April 25th, 2012
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Year of Plenty
based in
Spokane

Wendell Berry, the Inhabit Conference, community gardens, and the kingdom of God

Last week I had the privilege of attending the Inhabit Conference, a collaboration between the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and the Parish Collective, a network of faith leaders equipp ...

posted on
April 18th, 2012
from
Year of Plenty
based in
Spokane

My Take on Ethics of Eating - More grace needed in current food debates

Last week I was a panelist on an Ethics of Eating event at Sante' restaurant in downtown Spokane and today's edition of the Spokesman Review has an article on what transpired. The in-person event, ...

posted on
April 16th, 2012
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Year of Plenty
based in
Spokane

Gardening Advice - crop rotation, companion planting, and other planning tips

One important consideration for planning your garden is rotating crops to manage soil fertility and control insects and disease. For example tomato, potato, eggplant varieties should not be planted ...

posted on
April 14th, 2012
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Year of Plenty
based in
Spokane

Spring has arrived in Spokane - No mushrooms yet, plenty of wildflowers

Spring has arrived early in Spokane this year. I found the Grasswidow wildflowers pictured above at Riverside State Park yesterday. I have yet to spot a morel mushroom. The abundant rainfall this s ...

posted on
April 13th, 2012
from
Year of Plenty
based in
Spokane

Gardening Advice - Should I plant seeds or starts in the garden?

When I installed a greenhouse five years ago, for the first time I had to ability to start a large number of plants early. I was so excited I started everything early in the greenhouse with the ide ...