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Up on the Rooftop, Ideas Pause by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I was standing there on the grass which I never really finished push-reel-mowing back in October (and, by the way, I'm now thinking of not giving up on that). I looked up ... Read on »

A Volley Happening Between Mother and Daughter in the Place We Call Home by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living After years now of garden expansion, my backyard lawn slipping away with each new bed and border planted, lacrosse sticks have suddenly entered my home, a brand new (to us), o ... Read on »

2020 Vision (or What Happened When I Read About Ray Anderson's Big, Hairy Audacious Goals) by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I'm walking around with a book tucked under my arm. Staying up late reading it. And eschewing wheelbarrow-pushing for reading on a bench at the community garden. "What ar ... Read on »

Maybe We Could Do This (or How the World Changed When We Learned How to Inoculate a Shitake Log) by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I was at an all-day mushroom growing class at Gaia Gardens, an Atlanta urban farm, yesterday, when I had the feeling I have at most of these classes at one point or another ... Read on »

A Ton of Food, Green Globe, Zero Waste, and Terry Cunningham at the Finish Line of the New York... by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I'm outside raking leaves yesterday, or as us gardeners like to call them, "carbon," and I notice the side of my house and realize I haven't given you the final update. Th ... Read on »

DeKalb County, Georgia, USA, Joins Other School Districts Nationwide That Are Restoring Children's... by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living BREAKING NEWS ATLANTA, GA-- The DeKalb County Board of Education voted last night in favor of mandatory, daily unstructured recess of at least 15 minutes, preferably outdoors ... Read on »

Opening Windows by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living This is Dr. Flagler. She teaches inner-city children with emotional and behavioral development issues. I met her this week because her window was the only one open and I was ... Read on »

"I Don't Supervise, Pattie. I Free People." by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So, I have to be honest with you, there's some strife in the community garden. Power. Personalities. Pace. Even the possibility that grown-ups who have agreed to the missi ... Read on »

You Trust That One Day You Will Harvest Fruit by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Too many, too many, too many commitments this week. Three evening meetings that left this morning person wanting to stick pins in my eyes and beg for mercy. Too busy to atte ... Read on »

"We Have An Idea" by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Dennis Lange, partner at 5 Seasons Brewing Company, came by the community garden with the first deliveries of spent grain from the beermaking process the other day, and we ded ... Read on »

"But Then You're Raising Rabbits, Pattie" by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I had a whirling dervish sort of conversation with Farmer D the other day (I was the whirling dervish--Farmer D is always completely calm). We were chatting away when we g ... Read on »

A Terrific Short Video, a City's Vision, the Value of Recess, and How to Start a Community Garden... by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I love that video, and it hits close to home for me. I've been knee-deep for months now in the Comprehensive Land Use Plan for the newest city in the United States (I serve on ... Read on »

Wishing I Could Put a Rat Excluder Down the Very Center of My Life by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living These are rat excluders. They were made by DeKalb County Extension Services based on a design by the garden expert, Walter Reeves. A woman named Bobbi, who is a member of th ... Read on »

Signaling That It's Time by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The heavy heads of crimson amaranth, sprays of five-foot-tall zinnias, and towering sorghum stalks dominate my home garden right now. The days of multicolored tomatoes lining ... Read on »

"They Don't Have to Justify Need" by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living A package came the other day with these seeds in it. Corne de Belier snow peas. Rouge d'Hiver lettuce. Danvers carrots. All heirlooms from the 1800s. Plus a variety of ot ... Read on »

Planting in the Holes by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I'm working the other day in my office, tap tap tap on the computer, when I hear the unmistakable grinding sound of a wood chipper right ouside my window. I slip on my fav ... Read on »

Some Part of Me Felt Like I Had Found My Way Home (Or, What Happened at the Southface Eco-Office... by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So I stood there on the sidewalk in front of the Southface Energy Institute Eco-Office, some lemonade in a compostable cup in hand. After hugging Judy of the CSA, who is now ... Read on »

What The Children Found That Was Important by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living We staked out the plots of the community garden yesterday and spread mulch for something like five hours. More than twenty people showed up and we somehow intuitively divided ... Read on »

It's Not About the Lawn by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I've been putting off telling you about it, the lawn. How hard it has been this summer. How much I have been hating it, the mowing. Not just how physically difficult it is ( ... Read on »

The Hands We Have Touched that Have Touched Us Back by Pattie B. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living So a woman named Kathryn Wasserman Davis got an idea about how to celebrate her 100th birthday in 2007. She decided to give away a million dollars to 100 projects for peace. ... Read on »

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