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Reconnecting With My 27 Backyard Tree Species: Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns July 3, 2019August 20, 2019

Hi, my deep-rooted/
woods friends. I’m sad I’ve not been/
near. I’ll tread barefoot. 27 different tree species in my backyard -- I need to connect

Nature Haibun -- Prose + Haiku | Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Earth + Us Part 2: Weeding Uncovers Treasures Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns January 5, 2021January 6, 2021

Weeding out the bad/ that shouldn’t be there makes room for the good that should. Backstory: My wife wrote Earth + Us about pulling privet. This is an update. I was motivated to pull out a massive clump of several very old and large privet on my NW Georgia property (privet is an invasive, non-native…

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Why Make And Maintain A Natural Yard: For The Birds, Bees and Butterflies
ByDavid Kuhns October 6, 2019October 7, 2019

Natural yards for the birds, bees and butterflies — and for the pleasure they brings human senses — are nothing new. I personally have created my own natural yard for decades, as has my brother. Where did that inspiration come from? Our forest ranger father, who taught all my siblings that lawns were silly, foolish,…

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Find Peace, Mindfulness and Balance in the Garden
ByMarnie April 5, 2021April 5, 2021

I don’t know about you, but the conditions of society and the world can stress me out. Since I run an online business, social media is part of my every day life and it can suck me down a rabbit hole and become a huge time-waster. I stumbled on a free method for getting my…

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Blackberries. Thorns. Cobbler. I Accept.
ByDavid Kuhns July 2, 2018July 2, 2018

Today my wife and I went out to the lower meadow to pick blackberries with thorns. About 20 minutes later, we made a fresh blackberry cobbler, and I wrote this poem about the experience: It reminds me of the time I visited a rose garden in Freiburg, in the southwest corner of Germany, just south…

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Working In and With Nature: Toil or Meditation?
ByDavid Kuhns January 2, 2023January 2, 2023

In one of the nature-oriented Facebook groups I’m in, a land-management newbie was talking about how they were frightened to do a controlled burn of their property (for weed reduction). They were afraid the fire would get away from them, and were thinking, rethinking, and (I think) over-thinking the difficulty of doing the burn. As…

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What Is It? Nature’s Guys Want To Learn!
ByDavid Kuhns March 18, 2018March 18, 2018

I confess: Nature’s Guys don’t know everything! Especially about the flora and fauna of Northwest Georgia, where I just moved. But this morning in mid-March, a whole bunch of birds’ songs hit my ears. And I’m curious: What ARE they? So we decided to start a new section of Nature’s Guys, called “What Is It?…

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