Photos: South Lot
Apr. 10th, 2025 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
These pictures mostly show the south lot. See the House Yard, South Lot, Savanna and Prairie Garden, and Back Toward the House.
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Photos: House Yard
Apr. 3rd, 2025 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today I took pictures around the yard. It's cloudy, so the lighting is bad, but so much is happening that I wanted to capture it. See the House Yard, South Lot, Savanna, and Prairie Garden.
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These pictures are from the left side of the Charleston Food Forest. See Part 1 Right Side.
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Today we visited the Charleston Food Forest. I took pictures and rescued some plants that were growing in the paths so they don't get trampled. These pictures are mostly from the right side. See Part 2 Left Side.
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Photos: New Rocks
Mar. 15th, 2025 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today I planted most of my new rocks! \o/ I'm waiting to sink the pink mica rock until I get a second one to point the other direction along the road, to catch headlights from both ways.
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Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Mar. 12th, 2025 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Continuing the photo tour of the yard, most of these are from the savanna and prairie garden.
See all of today's photography posts:
Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Photos: Back Toward the House
Photos: Garden Shed
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See all of today's photography posts:
Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Photos: Back Toward the House
Photos: Garden Shed
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Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Mar. 3rd, 2025 03:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
These pictures are from Sunday, but it's after midnight so the timestamp will say Monday. See the savanna and house yard.
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Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Jan. 6th, 2025 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Here are more pictures, mostly from the savanna and prairie garden. (See also the House Yard and South Lot, Midwinter Grove, and Heading Back Toward the House.)
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Photos: Testing Pens on Plant Labels
Jan. 3rd, 2025 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This set of photos begins documenting an experiment to see which type of pen will prove most durable for outdoor plant labels. I also took a few pictures around the yard, as long as I was out there with the camera.
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Photos: Hollies Planted
Dec. 21st, 2024 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
For our Yule ritual this year, we planted our new hollies in the Midwinter Grove.
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Pocket Park in Snow
Nov. 30th, 2024 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today we went out for Small Business Saturday. I noticed that a downtown pocket park, which has been slowly developing for some years, had a small light display. (The town's main light display is in a much bigger park but wasn't turned on yet when we went past.) So I stopped to take some pictures.
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What I'm Growing
Nov. 12th, 2024 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Almost everything in the Charleston Food Forest is something I'm growing, would like to grow, or at least recognize from edible plant studies. So I thought it would be fun to break that down, listed in approximate spatial order moving through the lists of pictures ...
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This concludes the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back, Part 3: Left Back.)
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This continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front. Part 2: Right Back.)
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This continues the tour of the Charleston Food Forest. (See Part 1: Right Front.)
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My partner Doug spotted this place recently, and today we explored the Charleston Food Forest and its plants. (See Part 2 Right Back, Part 3: Left Back, Part 4 Left Front, and What I'm Growing.) It's a skinny rectangle, and not all that big. If you cut it in half and lined the halves up as a square, then it would fit in a typical town yard around here. It has a LOT of plants in it, thoughtfully chosen and arranged. I wouldn't call it a food forest myself, because while it has multiple layers, it is really short. I doubt anything is more than about 10-12 feet tall. That's sensible in a garden this small. But when I think of a forest, I'm thinking one that at least has a canopy layer. Mine has emergents, the main canopy, the subcanopy, and then all the shorter stuff as shown here (understory trees, shrubs, herbs, groundcovers, roots, fungi, vines, etc.). So I'd probably call this one a permaculture garden. (See the layers of a food forest and permaculture design principles.) I didn't spot actual guilds, but everything is arranged in logical order. Someone has done an amazing job setting this up in the space available.
The really subversive thing: it's not a garden to be looked at, it's a garden to be used, for free, by everyone. A little slice of Terramagne, or Turtle-Island-That-Was, especially since it's located right next to a government building with several human service offices. So I helped myself to some seeds. Sure, I might come back later for things to eat. But what I am really interested in is gathering things from here that I can grow at home.
I could only think of two things I'd really add to make this even better:
1) A Little Free Seed / Plant Library so folks could swap things.
2) A community bulletin board, chiefly for people to post their Have / Want lists for trading, but could also be used to announce things like plant swaps or sales, garden open houses, etc. There is an Events section on the back side of the welcome sign, but it's under glass.
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The really subversive thing: it's not a garden to be looked at, it's a garden to be used, for free, by everyone. A little slice of Terramagne, or Turtle-Island-That-Was, especially since it's located right next to a government building with several human service offices. So I helped myself to some seeds. Sure, I might come back later for things to eat. But what I am really interested in is gathering things from here that I can grow at home.
I could only think of two things I'd really add to make this even better:
1) A Little Free Seed / Plant Library so folks could swap things.
2) A community bulletin board, chiefly for people to post their Have / Want lists for trading, but could also be used to announce things like plant swaps or sales, garden open houses, etc. There is an Events section on the back side of the welcome sign, but it's under glass.
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Photos: House Yard
Nov. 2nd, 2024 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today I took some pictures around the yard. These are images from the house yard.
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