Candlelight, Kerosine or Calamagrostis

What does candlelight, kerosine and calamagrostis have to do with each other.  Better yet, what the blazes is Calamagrostis?  And why are we talking about it?  Well, candlelight and kerosine lamps are pre-electric and therefore pre-utility staples.  Calamagrostis is better known as Karl forester grass and may have been found out on the prairie, but is now a present day …

Cultivating Garden Sprouts

Deep down, we all know the importance of the outdoors. However, with the introduction of the internet, video games, and various other media over the last few decades free time seems to be wrapped up in these things rather than the outdoors. There have been many books published over the last decade or so about the negative effects that these …

Benson Plant Rescue – What happens to the left overs?

Nurse: We have an oak with a severed limb in the OR! Doctor: Give it 500 ccs of sap, STAT! Nurse: We’ve got a rose coming in via ambulance that is covered in Japanese Beetles. Doctor: Bypass triage and get that thing into quarantine as soon as it arrives! Nurse (aside to camera): Just another day in the life of …


Andrea Shaw
Andrea Shaw
Andrea Shaw