Homemade ice cream from Wild Scoops is a delightful treat! This article is part of Anchorage Home Base: Work + Play in Alaska. During our month-long stay in Anchorage, where my husband worked remotely and I volunteered with Alaska SPCA, we tried to cook at home most days. But when you’re on vacation, you can’t […]
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My favorite activity in Anchorage was spending time with the animals at Alaska SPCA. You can read all about my experience in the post Volunteer Vacay. This article is part of Anchorage Home Base: Work + Play in Alaska. Tony Knowles Coastal Trail We live near an entrance to the trail and find ourselves walking
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This article is part of Anchorage Home Base: Work + Play in Alaska. Surrounded by mountains, with waterways around and throughout, Anchorage is a great home base for outdoor activities! There’s plenty to do within the city limits (see my post Activities in and Around Anchorage for details), and if you want to take a
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It all started with Pup Pup. In summer 2019, my son Robert was involved in a week-long community service project with his youth group, providing home repairs to a family in need in a rural part of our North Carolina county. Running loose on the property was a young staffie mix called Pup Pup. Pup
For links to my full restoration process, visit Restoring a Native Woodland Garden. I have accomplished a great deal so far, but sadly, this is only the second phase of a long process to eradicate invasive plants from my property. I will continue to remove Himalayan blackberries and English Ivy over many years. I will
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For links to my full restoration process, visit Restoring a Native Woodland Garden. Now, it’s time to enjoy the beautiful garden. I’m delighted to see it waking up in spring! And though I will continue to pull errant blackberries that shoot up from the soil (as well as any other weeds that find their way
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For links to my full restoration process, visit Restoring a Native Woodland Garden. In the spring, I cut back the cover crop multiple times. I also pulled weeds that had snuck in, particularly shotweed, which can literally shoot dozens of seeds into the air when touched, if they’re dry enough. I tried to get them
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This beautiful Pacific Bleeding Heart is prolifically growing under the stairs and surrounding areas! For links to my full restoration process, visit Restoring a Native Woodland Garden. Finally, after all the planning and prep work, it’s time to plant! We were blessed to find a number of wonderful native plants already existing in the restored
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For links to my full restoration process, visit Restoring a Native Woodland Garden. Eventually this area will be fully open to wildlife, but unfortunately deer can be disastrous grazers, and I have lots of deer that like to hang out on my property. In fact, I was exhausted one day after planting and, since it
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This beautiful piece of wood is from a very dead willow we had to take down years ago. Now it serves as art and a hidey-hole for wildlife in the native garden. For links to my full restoration process, visit Restoring a Native Woodland Garden. Did you know that rocks and logs/branches provide valuable habitat
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