The Resilience of Natives
If you have been following along, you are no doubt aware that, in Sonoma at the Rancho, we have a...
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Category: Drought
Ready for Rain
It’s been an unusually dry December in California. Usually that’s a bad thing since we...
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Harvesting Rain
As the rain has fallen with increasing frequency through late November and now into December, we...
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Adding Flesh to the Bones
After weeks of laying down the bones of our landscaping project, with time out to rebuild the...
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Building a Landscape Backbone
There’s a lot more going on at the Sonoma rancho than our recent project to rebuild the...
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Barn Angels and Others
If you’ve been following along, you’ve heard that my 85-year-old mother fled...
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What I Forgot to Tell You
As I’ve been posting about our Project Lawn Be Gone, I’ve had a lot of feedback and...
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Native Wisdom
In our great conversion from thirsty Bluegrass lawn to appropriate drought-tolerant California...
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Project Lawn Be Gone: PROGRESS!
Now the fun begins! We went through the arduous task of sheet mulching, then we spent weeks...
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Project Lawn Be Gone: Phase Two
Actually, this isn’t really a “phase” as such. If you’ll recall the major...
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About the Drought
If a drop by drop trickle can eventually carve the Grand Canyon, how many saved drops will it take...
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Project Lawn Be Gone
Those of you who have been following along here at Left Coast Cowboys have heard me warning about...
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