In 2021 I translated two classes into Spanish for Omaha City Sprouts' Growing Gardeners series. Here are the slide decks:

La Biología del Suelo en el Jardín

Manejo orgánico de malezas y plagas

This was the first year for our sunken-path greenhouse. I was not able to build it at its full 20x12' size due to permitting restrictions, so instead (following the advice of an engineer I consulted) I built just the first 6x12' with the intention of adding on in subsequent years.

Event held by University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

version español

Since moving to Omaha in 2018, I've been slow to re-establish my permaculture consultancy here. On the one hand it's frustrating: I'm eager to make a difference! But on the other hand, there are a number of good reasons to take it slow. Here are some of them.

I've decided to release the 2018 print edition of my 2017 book, I'm Not a Rancher! What Can I Do to Rebuild Soil? into the Creative Commons at archive.org.

At just 34 pages plus endnotes, the book is a primer intended to address the frustration of home gardeners who have just learned that the best way to build soil is to intensively graze livestock on it. While that remains true, there are still plenty of things that can be done on the home scale!

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Dr. Christine Jones gave another mindblowing talk on Tuesday for the Green Cover Seed conference, this year via Zoom. Her topic was how phosphorus cycles in healthy and unhealthy soils, and why most farm soils already have more than enough phosphorus to last a century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv288F4TXbo

This publication by UNL lists over a hundred plants recommended for Nebraska rain gardens.

This article from last year is a great summary of the benefits of Libraries of Things and how to go about starting one in your community:

This outstanding article by Nathaniel Rich was printed in The New York Times in August 2018, and while it has faced some criticism since then, it stands out as one of the best histories of the climate crisis and what went wrong in our response to it.