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A Jubilee of Ideas, Connections, Harvests (including IdeaMensch and the African Children's Choir) by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living It is suddenly Blackberries. Well, no, I shouldn't say that. I saw it coming--the flowers, the fruit. But every year when the deep purple appears, it somehow sur ... Read on »

"But Neither Are You Free to Abandon It" by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So the kids aren't coming anymore to the back field urban farm row , as far I can tell (field day, finals, end of school), so I went out there and pretty much just ... Read on »

A Way to Make a Measurable Impact in Only An Hour a Week by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Don't want to/have room to/have time to Plant a Row for the Hungry? Well, I have news for you--you don't have to (although see my Operation Plant a Row tips here ... Read on »

"See You Tomorrow, One Shoe" by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living This is hands-down the best commencement speech I have ever seen. And I am absolutely honored to have crossed paths with this amazing woman, Luma Mufleh of the Fugees A ... Read on »

Real Work to Grow Real Food that Makes a Real Difference by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So, here's what has happened this school year at a community garden and in a back field with that middle school health class, about which I wrote in this post: ... Read on »

One Stitch, One Step, at a Time by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living One, two, three, four, five . . . sixteen. That's how many steps there are in the staircase in my house. I've counted them a million times, in the dark of night, ... Read on »

The Bathroom as Metaphor by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So, there are lots of challenges at my daughter's high school, not unlike many others nationwide as budgets have been cut and administrators are challenged to do m ... Read on »

The Funny Farm, Einstein, and Shoulders to Stand On by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I stood on a stage behind a fake tree as a six-year-old in 1970, the year of the very first Earth Day, and said my one and only line: "Please prop up my branch be ... Read on »

17 New Orchards Coming Soon Across The United States (and How You Can Help from the Comfort of... by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living This is not one of my pomegranate trees, of which I put in two last year. This is one at the home of someone in my city from which my older daughter and I picked (wit ... Read on »

After Mr. Stripey Goes In, the Hammock Calls by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The "spring is heeeeeere" bird is chirping all day now, not just in the morning, and I hear it outside the open screen door as the late-day sun streams in. Spring is ... Read on »

Completely Natural Bursts of Creation by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living No, we were not coloring Easter eggs (although don't miss "The Pretty One" on page 39 in my book , if you want an Easter egg story). This spontaneous combustion of pai ... Read on »

"Lady of the Lettuce," and Why Fun Matters by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living It just kinda' happened. The same couple of volunteers showed up for the food pantry harvest at the community garden and there was so much to pick--five wheelbarrows ... Read on »

A Tender Transplant from Generation to Generation by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living "When do you sleep?" I asked this 82-year-old man, who was demonstrating his invention of a "goat-mower" to me, where pygmy goats push their heads through a PVC pip ... Read on »

Going to the Hollers of Appalachia with Betty by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So, my friend Betty Londergan is traipsing around the world right now on a year-long journey as the Global Blogging Ambassador for Heifer International . Heifer gets ... Read on »

And So It Goes. And So It Grows. And It All Matters. by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Here's a picture I took of my friend, Ed Bruske, of The Slow Cook, in July 2010, in his front-yard garden a mile or so from the White House. Since then, Ed sold his h ... Read on »

"Do You Think That You Can Stop Doing That Which God Wants You To Do?" by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I wasn't planning on being there. My younger daughter was supposed to come home from an after-school commitment with a neighbor, but a phone call indicating she n ... Read on »

Bolting, The Exciting Return of Two Impatient Men, Another Year of Nothing, and An Existential... by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living And, so, yes, heat has rolled into town with a vengeance, more so than last year, already in the 80s (the high 20s in Celsius) and it's not even officially spring ... Read on »

Food Pantry, Bottle, and Jail Gardens; Better World Books; and the Paradigm of Abundance by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The "spring is heeeeere" bird is up early every day (which you may remember from the very first chapter of my book ), proclaiming this clearly obvious news here in m ... Read on »

Fugees Garden Details: Don't Make It Harder Than It Needs to Be by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Okay, so you want to do a garden like the Fugees garden , within the next month or two, but you're not quite sure how to do it? If I can't help inspire a few others t ... Read on »

Some Things Are Simply Meant To Be. The Fugees Academy Garden Was One of Them. by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I am still on a high about how terrific this experience was, from beginning to end (which took less than a week). And I'm still as sore as can be. My friend Bob wro ... Read on »

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