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WTFrack?

You want to watch something scary for Halloween? Well, I suggest the award-winning Gasland, or perhaps this short film from from an eleven year old from Boulder, Colorado (below). She tells us all...

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Reblogged from the tasty tRuth: There is currently a glut of delicious, organic, pumpkin-pie making squash available locally. I think it's time to cook a few for the smoothie pantry!

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WTFrack Part II – It’s not about hating natural gas, it’s about loving our...

This land is OUR land. This morning, I got a little teary. Back story: I had just forwarded a letter to all my Colorado Springs friends about what is going on with fracking in our county (see...

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WTFrack Part III – Free Fracking Film Festival! (And how about that...

Everything you wanted to know about fracking . . . but damn, you didn’t want to have to ask! No matter. We have to to be informed–and it’s a good thing. Knowledge is power, and only with power we can...

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WTFrack Part IV: The Point of No Return for Colorado Springs, Colorado

  The fracking issue is far too important NOT to be involved in. It’s the future of Colorado Springs–our future! Dave Gardner, like many of us, has been researching this issue for a long time to come...

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Fracking Hell, Part V – Lucy’s Letter to Colorado Springs’ City Council

I couldn’t agree more.   First, an important message: as obsessed as I am with the horrible fracking situation in my beloved Colorado, and as much as I want to help, as much as I can, I’m taking a...

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Home is Where Your Madness Blooms

Reblogged from gardenhood: Last summer, hanging a week's worth of gardening garb out to dry, I noticed that some of the T-shirts were more faded on the back than in the front. Chuckling to my self, I...

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Exploring the “Haunted Garden”– An Interview with Author Sheryl Humphrey

I will soon be reviewing Sheryl Humphey’s (spoiler alert!) delicious, highly entertaining, and educational little book in Greenwoman Magazine‘s 5th issue. In the meantime, I wanted to post a little...

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You and the Scoodoos

A couple of weeks ago I received a request from my Facebook Friend Ciarán Burke in Ireland. He asked if I’d post something on Scoodoos. When I saw the pictures and heard the story I said, “Of course!”...

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The Genesis of Greenwoman

Last week my friend Sheryl Humphrey, creator of extraordinary nature paintings, and author of The Haunted Garden: Death and Transfiguration in the Folklore of Plants (available on Etsy) tagged me as...

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Gardening With the Moon

I am so excited about this! My friend Rebekah Shardy (who is not only an avid gardener but an amazing writer–her fiction story “Lady in Waiting” appeared in Greenwoman Issue #4) will present a...

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Green Poetry

Sunflowers by Meredith Drake When I return from the excess of summer, they are still out there on their crosses, bowing their heads and letting the birds pluck out their eyes.   O Helianthus, tell me...

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Greenwoman Lit. on We Dig Plants!

Home of “We Dig Plants” Yesterday Zora and I had the pleasure of hanging out (on the radio!) with the proprietors of Groundworks, Inc. — Carmen DeVito  and  Alice S. Marcus Krieg. These ladies of the...

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Eerie Tales from The Haunted Garden

“Calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire.”Illustration by the great Arthur Rackham in the 1921 Doubleday, Page edition of John Milton’s “Comus.” (Brought here from The Haunted Garden’s Facebook...

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The Gardening/Game of Thrones Connection (NSFW . . . sort of)

A little birdy (okay, Zora) alerted me to this connection last week after she visited her college friends in Boulder over Halloween. (Zora dressed up as Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones.)...

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A Little Nonsense with Edward Lear

I thought I’d share some nonsense, but then it turned a bit serious. I’m referring to Edward Lear. In the next issue of Greenwoman we’ll be publishing a few illustrations from Lear’s book, Nonsense...

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“Springs Woman Tends an Amazing Garden and Equally Lush Magazine”

Now here’s a “before” picture of the garden in early June of this year. “Before” meaning before a summer of distractions, working overtime every day, publishing a book, fires and floods, etc. It is...

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Amy Stewart’s Writing Secrets

Best Selling Author (and gardener and chicken raiser) Amy Stewart.                              Photo by Delightful Eye. (This interview was first published in GrowWrite! Magazine, in their...

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Zoe Tilley Poster’s Nature Connection

Three Dogs – an original drawing by Zoe Tilley Poster Some of you may remember Zoe Tilley Poster’s art from Greenwoman Issue #4. She created an illustration for our “yucca mama” story, which first...

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Women of the Land: Marji Guyler-Alaniz’ FarmHer Project (With a Dedication to...

Lois Reichert at Reichert’s Dairy Air. Lois has a micro-dairy with about 15 Nubian and La Mancha goats. From their milk she makes award-winning artisan cheeses. Some of you may have seen the very...

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