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Plant Profiles
One of the problems that I have observed with our website here is limited space for sale items - I cannot have too many items in the...
Jason Avers
Jun 15, 20233 min read
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A Tale of Seven Sisters
The important thing to know about stories is their proper use and purpose. The proper purpose of our star stories is to tell us...
Jason Avers
Mar 29, 202310 min read
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Have We Been Doing Conservation Wrong?
When I was a much younger garden gnome, the going ecological concern was the loss of the world's rain forests. Deforestation was running...
Jason Avers
Mar 24, 20236 min read
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How many trees are too many?
When walking through a mature forest, have you ever looked up? That's a silly question, of course you have. What I meant to say is,...
Jason Avers
Mar 18, 20237 min read
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A World Without money
As one turns west on Third Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and begins driving in the general direction of 'Sun Goes Down', one passes quickly...
Jason Avers
Mar 11, 202313 min read
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Is this edible? The difference between bulbs, corms, and tubers.
From 23°27′ N on down to 23° 27′ S, one does not have to worry too much about where one's next meal is coming from .. there is always...
Jason Avers
Mar 8, 20235 min read
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"I want to have a walnut tree in my food forest. What about Juglone?"
Chances are, if you have been hanging out in horticultural circles for long, you have heard about the dreaded tree that is the bane of...
Jason Avers
Feb 4, 20233 min read
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Plant Names
It is Springtime, and there is a lot of henbit growing outside - you know, that tiny little green plant with the square stems and tiny...
Jason Avers
Apr 8, 20213 min read
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Jason Avers
Mar 17, 20210 min read
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Habitats for Humans
Close to 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth close to the Northern end of the Yucatan peninsula, leaving a crater close to...
Jason Avers
Mar 3, 20218 min read
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Living With Livestock
I grew up on a farm, or more properly, what was left of the farm - Grandmother had sold off 80 acres to the Tulsa County Parks Department...
Jason Avers
Feb 21, 20219 min read
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Secrets of Soil
Its that stuff beneath our feet .. "earth" it is sometimes called, the source of the name for our home planet "Earth". I suppose, when...
Jason Avers
Feb 10, 202116 min read
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Enemies and Allies
As human beings, we all have certain fundamental needs .. things that we HAVE to have in order to survive. This shouldn't be a surprise...
Jason Avers
Feb 5, 202117 min read
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On Roles, and Layers
If the reader has come across the idea of a food forest before, then the topic of layers should be familiar already, but for the sake of...
Jason Avers
Jan 29, 202111 min read
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The Soil Seed Bank
Have you ever prepared a new space for planting, gotten your seeds or transplants started, and then seen new plants emerge from the soil...
Jason Avers
Jan 27, 20214 min read
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Learning to See the Garden
For the reader with a fragile ego, a warning: Today's topic is not limited to, but does contain a certain degree of discussion regarding...
Jason Avers
Jan 25, 20216 min read
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The Internet of Trees
It's 4 AM in the morning again, and its time to contemplate what I'm going to say on the weekly live stream, again. I have an idea, and...
Jason Avers
Jan 23, 20219 min read
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Being an Agrarian in a Digital World
Is the information age coming to an end? This is what I'm wondering, as I spend another long night struggling with building a website. ...
Jason Avers
Jan 20, 20214 min read
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The Dao of Woodland Gardening
Every Wednesday at 7PM Central Standard Time, I do a live show on the YouTube platform. Typically, I have a good idea what the topic of...
Jason Avers
Jan 18, 202113 min read
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January 2021: New year, new beginnings
Its another morning, really early .. I didn't set out to follow Benjamin Franklin's advice from "Poor Richard's Almanac", but here I am,...
Jason Avers
Jan 16, 20213 min read
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