Tag Archives: gardening

I claim this post for SCIONS!

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Kerrick

This weekend I went to the Golden Gate chapter of the California Rare Fruit Grower’s Scion Exchange, and if that is gobbledegook to you you are not alone but you are also missing out. Plants can do many things humans … Continue reading →

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We all need somebody to lean on

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Kerrick

This is the time of year when the fruit trees grow legs. They become spidery beings, some of them. Their branches, burdened with too much fruit to bear, risk breaking unless some human comes along and props them with a … Continue reading →

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Catch-up post

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Kerrick

Welcome to the first week of summer here at Emerald Earth. We’ve had a much longer rainy season than usual here; we even had some cool rainy days last week. But now it’s 94F and it feels like summer is … Continue reading →

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What it’s like at Emerald Earth

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Kerrick

This is what it’s like right now at Emerald Earth–it’s Friday afternoon, and we should be in the sunny garden turning in some soil amendments to prepare a bed for onions, but the garden manager has told us to knock … Continue reading →

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Introducing Kerrplunk

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Kerrick

Yesterday, I was working at a desk job in a small non-profit organization in Berkeley. It happens to be a synagogue of the denomination of Judaism I affectionately refer to as “woo-Jew.” The services are uplifting, celebratory, mystical, and sometimes … Continue reading →

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