How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard

Here’s my review of Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates, which appears in the current issue of YES! Magazine. How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard by Abby Quillen In “Paradise Lot,” two residents of an inner city write about how they transformed less than an acre of…

How to Share a Chicken (or Two)

Shareable.net published my article about the Eastside Egg Cooperative in Portland, Oregon. It begins: Foster Road in Southeast Portland, Oregon is lined with wrecking yards, auto body shops, gas stations, cheap appliance stores, and vacant lots. It’s not the place you’d expect to find a six-acre working farm or a ten-acre wetland preserve. But that’s…

Our First Egg!

If you’ve been following the Hen Diaries, you’ve watched our four sweet little chicks turn into garden-devouring hens. Well, today was a big day for our little flock. Emily laid our first egg! I’ll tell you all the details in the next installment of the Hen Diaries, but for now, look how much these girls…