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Killer Gardening Mistakes: Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns June 12, 2019August 29, 2019

When planting gardens, /
you shouldn’t confuse okra/
pods with Orca pods.

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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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Deep Woods Bath: ImproVerse Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns July 4, 2019August 20, 2019

I emersed me in/ woods, hoping to stop dying./ I must bathe more oft.

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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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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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Canoeing West Chickamauga Creek – Nature Bathing
ByDavid Kuhns August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

Canoeing, kayaking, floating, swimming — I was born to be on the water. Lucky us: We LIVE on West Chickamauga Creek, the boundary between Walker County and Catoosa County in Northwest Georgia. Our 6-acre Spirit Tree Farms property is across the creek from the #ChickamaugaNationalMilitaryPark (actually in the Southeast corner of the park, where there’s a…

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My Thoreau-ly Walden-esque Experiment: Is This Lifestyle Sustainable?
ByDavid Kuhns May 9, 2018May 9, 2018

Is Nature’s Guys nature-focused lifestyle sustainable? It is a question I’ve asked myself a lot, perhaps no more than yesterday when, with an allergy-induced fever, I worked myself into a sweat clearing away privet bushes, planting an elderberry plant and a yellow squash by the creek, cleaned out the ditch of old, disgarded tires; and…

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