Treading Lightly is a blog series on ways to lighten our carbon footprint. If you are like me, you LOVE sparkle. Give me the fairy dust! Alas, conventional glitter is made of plastic. It’s already 90% of the way to being microplastic, and microplastic is evil. That’s why I’m absolutely…
Treading Lightly is a blog series on ways to lighten our carbon footprint. You know that cliche about Mondays? Yeah. Well, it’s sort of like that for me today, so I decided to do a Treading Lightly post to get me back on track about what really matters. Cheese! And,…
Here’s the latest from the dome! Calendula is a constant sunny presence in the dome. It attracts aphids, unfortunately, but I guess that keeps them off the roses. The ladybugs I released last fall have been reproducing! I see their larvae a lot, mostly hanging around the calendula. I tried…
Hello, all! I’ve decided to post my dome updates here, so I can just share the link around to various places. The Dome is a 22′ diameter greenhouse that was built from a kit in October 2020. Various technical issues kept me from planting anything until around February/March 2021. Meanwhile…
