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Watercolor painting of a log cabin in the Ozark hills in autumn, with a garden bed, a basket of flower bulbs, comfrey plants, and stone-bordered beds in the foreground
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Rocky Soil and a Permaculture Paradise: A Guide for Ozark Gardeners

A very steep shaded forest hillside with a low fieldstone retaining wall at its foot and narrow stone terraces of blooming woodland flowers and ferns climbing the slope
October 16, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Building a Retaining Wall on a Steep Hillside, When the Time Comes

Watercolor of a forestry mulcher clearing cedar brush on an Ozark hillside, leaving wood chips and an opening pasture
October 15, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Forest Mulching: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 10

Watercolor of rain falling on a log house in the Ozark hills, water running from gutters into rain barrels and a pipe leading down to a garden and a pond
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Catching the Rain: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 1

Six photos of water at the Living Springs Log House: the cave spring with a white Great Pyrenees, a cistern lid, an overflow pipe, a downspout, a culvert, and a wet area with willows
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Water, Water Everywhere: The Water Story of the Living Springs Log House

A very steep, shaded wooded hillside with a low fieldstone retaining wall at its foot, woodland flowers and ferns growing along the wall and up the slope
October 14, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Caring for a Steep Hillside Behind Your House

Watercolor of a sloping autumn Ozark pasture with a sycamore, persimmon and cedar trees, sheep and goats grazing, a small shed and pond, and a father with a child on his shoulders watching from the fence
October 12, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

From Cedar Thicket to Sanctuary Pasture: The Living Springs Log House Improvement Checklist, Part 2

Old-fashioned painting of three generations of a family picking apples and peaches together in a sunlit orchard
October 12, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

The Orchard the Town Grew Up Around

Watercolor painting of an autumn Ozark landscape with a garden bed, a basket of flower bulbs, comfrey plants, and stone-bordered beds in front of colorful wooded hills
October 3, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

Planting a Paradise: A Fall Guide for Ozark Gardeners

A lush hillside garden of vegetables and flowers below the log house deck, with a boulder at right
October 2, 2026October 20, 2026 Patricia Mikkelson

The Garden That Grew From a Trench: Nine Years of Feeding the Soil at Living Springs Log House

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