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February 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Riley Black, When The Earth Was Green, February 21, Oasis, RB And Zoom
Riley Black is the bestselling and award-winning author of When the Earth Was Green , The Last Days of the Dinosaurs , and more. A regular contributor to National Geographic , Smithsonian , and Slate , as well as a repeat guest on NOVA and Science Friday , Riley has spent more than fifteen years bringing the public the latest about the deep past. When not enthusing over fossils in articles and books, Riley regularly volunteers with museum field teams to uncover new
Feb 1
Articles
FINCH FROLIC GARDEN PERMACULTURE: Three Reasons
By Diane C. Kennedy, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. An excellent permaculture method of evaluating your landscape is to use a...
Dec 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: Prepare For Water Harvest Now!
By Diane Kennedy for Let's Talk Plants! October 2021. One inch of rain falling on one acre in an hour is 27,154 gallons of pure, free,...
Sep 30, 2021
PERMACULTURE: The Ethics of Permaculture
By Diane Kennedy. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the term permaculture in the 1970’s, and with the term they defined the...
Jul 31, 2021
PERMACULTURE: Composting for Everyone
Turning organic materials into rich soil for food production isn’t a mystery. Organic stuff is eaten by creatures of diminishing sizes, poop
Mar 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: What is a Plant Guild?
Permaculture encompasses methods of gardening, horticulture and agriculture based on observations of nature. While that sounds very prosaic,
Jan 1, 2021
PERMACULTURE: Hügelkultur - Burying Wood
Hügelkultur (hoo-gull culture) has ancient origins in the mountains of Germany, where warmth is treasured and rain is frequent. There they
Nov 1, 2020
PERMACULTURE: Be a Soil Farmer
Permaculturists are soil farmers first and plant growers second. All the world’s wealth is in its soil and the real gold is the microorganis
Aug 31, 2020
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