← Back to the Front Page · June 2026 · Butterthief Gardens How It Works A pond in a gravel donut The gravel donut The pond → catches the daily flush and the rain. The gravel ring → takes the overflow and lets it sink in slowly. The rock circle → levels the slope and…
← May 2026 · Front Page · The Hive Life Series · No. 01 Local Beekeeping Association Olympia Beekeepers Association Summer Meetings Mon, June 8 · 6–8 p.m. Native Bees — David Jennings, WA Native Bee Society Mon, July 13 · Summer Potluck at Freedom Farm August: summer break — no meeting. Swantown Inn, 1431…
← Back to the Front Page · June 2026 · Butterthief Gardens The Hard Numbers 44M acres of lawn in the U.S. — about the size of New England, mostly dead to wildlife. ½ Convert half of it to natives and you’d out-acre most of the lower-48’s national parks combined. 100s of caterpillars needed to…
← Back to the Front Page · June 2026 · Butterthief Gardens From Our Beds The Zucchini That Wouldn’t For three years we filled our raised beds with bagged organic garden mix, over a base of composting leaves and small sticks — a hügelkultur bed, it turns out. And we could not grow zucchini. Zucchini!…