Each year, Earth Day, April 22, marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill right here in my hometown of Santa Barbara, California. On… Continue reading Saturday Sweeps: Earth Day
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Saturday Sweeps: Gardening
This spring I am promising myself and our daughter, a/k/a Sweetly Six that I am going to turn our two weed infested gardening beds into real, live, functioning gardens. This will certainly take a Silver Lined Herculean effort though. Because this is my first attempt at doing solo gardening, I have given myself permission to grow… Continue reading Saturday Sweeps: Gardening