by Denissia E. Withers | Jan 31, 2022 | Community, Community Garden News
by Hannae Pavlick Hannae has interned with Common Sense Gardens since June, 2021. She brings a strong organic gardening background and interest in learning more about permaculture. This is a book review of Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway. Long after finishing...
by Denissia E. Withers | May 27, 2021 | Community
Happy in the garden
by Denissia E. Withers | May 25, 2021 | Community
Rhodie What do two Willamette Valley garden designers do on a quiet Sunday? We drive south to visit the Rare Plant Research Facility outside of Oregon City of course! https://www.rareplantresearch.com. A beautiful Oregon mist, rolling green hills, holstein cows, and...
by Denissia E. Withers | May 3, 2021 | Community
Observer! “When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky, or a thought, because we tooter linked to the entire...
by Denissia E. Withers | Apr 25, 2021 | Community
I found that these quotes over the past six months brought me great joy and soothed my winter doldrums. “Plants are social, they always put themselves in clusters and groups, never in straight rows.” Ann Lovejoy Lovejoy’s Organic Design Gardening...