Newsletter Archive
2012
January - Fruit nuts
March - favorite plants, late winter gardening tasks
April - Spring garden tasks, elderberries
Early autumn - grounding children to the earth, preparing for autumn
2011
January - planning and learning, the Chuckster on winter planting and pruning and plants for forest transition areas, dreaming and scheming
February - Aronia melanocarpa, the Chuckster on pruning muscadines and grapes
May - Nanking cherries
June - Grapes, and the Chuckster on Japanese beetles, summer fertilization, and watering
October - Mulberries, the Chuckster on summer plant stress
2010
January - Bounty plums, the Chuckster on winter tasks, recipe for baked apples, preserving the harvest
February - Nanking cherries, the Chuckster on pruning and dormant wood cuttings, recipe for cranberry sauce with cherries, marsala and rosemary, listening to the pines
March - Mume plum, the Chuckster on planting instructions, recipe for Ume-Shiso dressing, the native cuisine project part 1
April - Blueberries, the Chuckster on urine for fertilization, recipe for blueberry peach crisp, the native cuisine project part 2
May - Strawberries, the Chuckster on fertilization, recipe for strawberries in simple syrup, the native cuisine project part 3
June - Willows, the Chuckster on plant maintenance (fire blight, moldy blotchy stuff on leaves, insects), willow dome design, transforming a chicken yard with useful plants
July - Black haw, the Chuckster on summer planting, pruning, fertilization and insects, making an herbal tincture, enjoying the bluebird family
August - Muscadines, the Chuckster on strategies for drought, grapple sauce
September - Thornless blackberries, the Chuckster on fall planting, the Philly Orchard Project
October - Persimmons, the Chuckster on preparing for the winter, more local plants
November - Pears and the Chuckster on preparing cold-sensitive plants for winter