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Missing Wildflowers: Nature Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns July 2, 2019August 21, 2019

See the lawnmower and the long grass? Miss the wildflowers? Folks look at my yard/
and see lots of grass to mow./
They miss wildflowers.

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Nature’s Guys Saturday Planting: It’s Not a Contest, Is It?
ByDavid Kuhns March 26, 2018March 27, 2018

I have to confess: With all the things he gets done, my “little” brother Gene (the West Coast Nature’s Guy) is sometimes a motivator … and sometimes I wonder if I can keep up with him in our rural life. His Live Innovations Farm and Education Center Facebook posting from Saturday said this: March 24 at 11:33pm Had…

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Cooling Georgia Heat: ImproVerse Prose
ByDavid Kuhns July 4, 2019August 20, 2019

I sit deep in my deciduous and cedar woods, shaded, sweltering in the hot afternoon Georgia heat. The still air, like an open oven, stifles me. I must escape. But just as I start to rise, a cool breeze starts from the creek bottom below, racing across the newly-mown fields. Wind rushes like a cresting…

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Trees In My Yard, Peaceful Evenings, Improv Piano, And Learning
ByDavid Kuhns May 4, 2019July 30, 2019

This evening, just before the sun set, I walked around the edge of my driveway, taking photos of tree in my yard (specifically on the edge of my property). I was stunned by the bio-diversity of this small plot of land. within the distance I can throw a baseball (which isn’t very far), I have…

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Cheap Chicken Coop, Free Fowl, First Farm-Fresh Food: Lessons Learned Setting Up Chicken Coop
ByDavid Kuhns April 4, 2019April 10, 2019

Chickens Incoming! We did it! A few months ago I found (Facebook Marketplace) an old, sturdy, used, well-built hen house and run for $50 (and the guy delivered it!). Then we asked around, and got 4 laying silkies (hens) from friends of ours who needed to trim their flock (I like free!). We went over…

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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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Coon Hunt On The Chickamauga – Haibun
ByDavid Kuhns July 30, 2019July 30, 2019

The old coon hunter drove his pickup truck out to my place. Ever since I’d told him that Farmer Sims planted field corn in our meadow, he’d been excited about the possibilities of a coon hunt in my corn field. I’d picked up the phone earlier in the evening: “HELLO, BROTHER!” He practically yelled. “Do…

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