Rooting for Bugs in the War on Backyard Blight
Ranging in size from basketball to softball and spanning the color spectrum between deep-forest green and tangerine, I just counted 20 pumpkins growing in our backyard. It’s unclear if any of these...
View ArticleHarvest the Rain: An Inconvenient (but Fun!) Tour
At the outset of the Industrial Revolution, the protagonist of Voltaire’s Candide travels extensively in an attempt to discover “the best of all possible worlds.” In the end, Candide realizes that he...
View ArticleRecycled Glass Bottles Could Replace Perlite & Pumice
A Santa Fe-based company is days away from opening up a very cool factory. Located at the Albuquerque city dump and recycling center, Growstone, LLC, is turning used glass bottles into a substitute for...
View ArticlePlant with the Cycles of the Moon! (Or not.)
By shrinking the Moon to the size of a grapefruit, Gru, the evil-but-lovable protagonist in the new movie Despicable Me, wants to be the greatest villain ever. In the plot, as in gardening, timing is...
View ArticleMunicipal Bonds Could Save the Planet
Thanks to my old friend Michael Kramer, Melissa and I had the pleasure of having Woody Tasch, the author of the relatively new book “Slow Money,” over for dinner last night. The slow-money concept is...
View ArticleSport Utility Bicycle To Haul (My) Ass & Then Some
Yesterday, my 10 minutes of gradual greening occurred when I walked down to New Mexico Bike and Sport to pick up my new “xtracycle.” A simple bike extension, called the “FreeRadical(TM),” hooks onto...
View ArticleFeeding Farmers Well & Enjoying the Fruits of NOW
Just had a wonderful surprise visit from my friends Greg and Patty, the owners of Camino de Paz School and Farm. They had to drop something off on their way to dinner, but next thing we knew we were...
View ArticleBush Provides Great Investment for Friends & Family
Golden currant berries are not golden. They’re a deep, dark purple-blue bordering on black. I suppose we call them “golden” because of the bright yellow flower that if boasts in the the spring, but...
View ArticleWith Book Release on Tuesday, Here’s My Schedule
August, 2010 TUESDAY, AUGUST 17 (AFTER MIDNIGHT), HARVEST THE RAIN IS AVAILABLE! Nate releases Harvest the Rain: How to Enrich Your Life by Seeing Every Storm as a Resource at...
View ArticleNate's Book, "Harvest the Rain," Is Now Available as Iraq War Starts Wrapping...
The great news is that I finally got the shopping cart to work at www.harvesttherain.com, so you can now buy my book on our totally secure website! I’ll even sign it, inscribe it, date it, bless it,...
View ArticleCatching a Homegrown Buzz, Smoking Out Sting Ops
Late yesterday, as the sun was beginning to hide behind some tall trees, I became a beekeeper again. I grabbed my box of apicultural supplies, climbed into my bee suit, and fired up the smoker. I would...
View ArticleCatch Our 16 Minutes of Fame on HGTV Today!
When I was my kids’ age (5 and 7), every child had goals. Highest among them was being on TV. One time my sister and I got on “Wonderama,” a show where kids were picked out of a large audience to be...
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Book-Launch Party Brings Rain, Fun, Song, & Sales!
Thanks to all who came to my book-launch party the other night! Everyone who was there knows what a blast it was, and even I (who did most of the inviting) was surprised at the size of the multitude....
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Friends, Clients, Colleagues Bend Me an Ear: THANKS!
In preparing to thank every New Mexico-based person, organization, and business that had a hand in the creation of my new book "Harvest the Rain," I discovered that there are over 120 of these entities...
View ArticleLittle Earth School Planning Next Year’s Garden Now
My younger son goes to a cool school called Little Earth. Tonight they had me as the first speaker in their series of practical talks for parents and educators. I called my presentation “Garden Design...
View ArticleBioneers Day 1: An Ultratransformative Conference!
I must have been about seven years old when my Gramma Adams got together with some friends and they stopped the construction of an interstate highway that would have run across the west side of...
View ArticleBioneers Day 1.1: YERT Provides Hope and Humor
After chowing a few-too-many organic sandwich-cookies found on a plate on a table in the media room, I strolled over to the “Leading-Edge Climate Initiative” panel featuring David Orr and four other...
View ArticleBioneers Day 2: Walkin’ the Walk to a Lipkis Talk
Woke up this morning and found two flat tires on the bike I’m borrowing for the conference. The tires had been losing air slowly, but after last night’s goat head attack, the situation was grim. I...
View ArticleBioneers Day 2.1: Green Jobs? Toxicologists Wanted. (The Sad Tales & Real...
A longtime Polaroid employee addressing thousands of cutting-edge environmentalists? Sounds like a concoction for conflict, but it turned out to be a fabulously successful experiment yesterday. John...
View ArticleBioneers Day 3: Not as a God, but as a God Might Be*
On the third day (a wonderfully wet Sunday Morning), the Lafayette Bookstore (the bookstore at the conference) graciously let me sign books. One might think a 100-person line at a signing would be...
View Article"Compost This"
Here’s the first in a series of seven or eight articles I’ve published since "Harvest the Rain" came out in August. This one about compost appeared in the Fall issue of Edible Santa...
View ArticleCommunity Water Harvesting: Alive, Well in SFe
This one is about the positive effect on our local economy due to Santa Fe’s community-wide and vigorous “water-consciousness.” It was first published in Green Fire Times in...
View ArticleEarth Care International's Sustainability Guide Publishes My Piece on Water...
I tried to find my recent article in the 2011 Sustainable Santa Fe Guide (about the blessings of bike commuting), but it’s not online yet. Here’s last year’s article in the same annual magazine...
View ArticleGreenhouse Bust Backfires on Cops, Us
Here is my recent "Permaculture in Practice" column, which is published in the Santa Fe New Mexican's monthly real estate magazine. You can find it on page 40 of the November issue of this link or in...
View ArticlePermaculture in Practice: Straw-Book Swales Make Meadows Easily
Here's my August column in the Santa FeNew Mexican. It's a how-to primer/preview to a video that I will be releasing tomorrow.Since erosion control and land restoration are a couple of Santa Fe...
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