Nature Haibun -- Prose + Haiku | Nature's Guys Thinking and Pondering

Sharing What The Land Teaches – ConTEXTing Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns August 29, 2019August 29, 2019

Trees, wildflowers, birds,/

bugs, fields. The land teaches me /

much. I want to share.

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Earth Day At 50 With Me: Haiku – Haibun Memory
ByDavid Kuhns April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

Earth Day’s 50! Then:/ I’m in Milwaukee’s River./ Now: I’ll plant Earth’s fields. Earth Day is 50! A half century ago I stood in the Milwaukee River in Estabrook Park near my home in Glendale, Wisconsin, loudly singing with other youth and cleaning out the old tires, mattress springs, tin cans and other junk that…

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Finding Wonderful Hidden Wildflowers: Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns August 22, 2019August 24, 2019

It is often so/ that when we clear dross and junk,/ we find wonderful. Using a loping shears to clear underbrush and non-native privet from around the hardwood trees in my back yard reveals an undergrowth of black-eyed susans and other hidden wildflowers. Sometimes you have to burn the grasses and weeds from large fields,…

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Using Carpet as Mulch and Weedkiller: Video How To
ByDavid Kuhns April 16, 2018April 18, 2018

Rather than throwing old pink shag into the landfill, I decided to use carpet as a weedkiller and a mulch. As my dad said: Deprive weeds of light, and they will die. Four months ago, when I ripped out some old pink carpet from my house, I put it over a large rectangle of my…

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Trouble In Paradise — Dealing With Pests And Problems
ByDavid Kuhns May 27, 2018July 13, 2018

Every place has pests and problems to deal with, its own Trouble In Paradise. Wisconsin mosquitos and cold, Arizona’s oppressive heat and poisonous bugs and snakes, Washington state’s rain and mold and rain and dampness, Georgia’s bugs and heat and humidity and CHIGGERS! As part of the #LightTheWorldNow #BuildHisKingdom project, I was thinking about the…

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Wildflower Planting Coast-to-Coast
ByDavid Kuhns March 19, 2018March 23, 2018

Gene Jr. lives in the Pacific Northwest, near Seattle, WA. Fly diagonally across the USA to where Dave lives in Northwest Georgia. Yet, thousands of miles apart, Nature’s Guys were planting wildflowers on the same day! I called Gene to get some more information. Here’s a summary of our wildflower discussion: Dave: What type of…

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Wildflowers and Butterfly Beauty: Three For The Price Of One
ByDavid Kuhns July 13, 2018July 13, 2018

Wildflowers and butterfly beauty is one of the best parts of rural life. As people go back to the woods or the fields, focusing on being self-sustaining and off-the-grid, one of the first questions they ask is: “What should I DO?” One of the most vital things I tell them is what they should NOT…

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