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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Also, shout out to @bencookman.bsky.social for keeping this alive while I’ve been so busy. He’s the real MVP!

Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I’ve let this fall by the wayside because of school/life, so sorry! I got a surprise (sick) cat that’s taken up my time since Nov, and now that she’s ok I can hopefully post more. We’ve been busy bees, and this weekend we’re building POTATO BOXES!! I’m so excited! Garden/cat tax:

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

We’re getting a storm in today in Phoenix, and I am SO excited! Rain is always sorely needed in the desert. Also, here’s some plant pics. 1st 2 are mine, then snippets of Ben’s and Corns. Corn has actually melons growing while all my melons have been freeloading jerks.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I did some digging and found a blueberry variety that does ok in AZ, sunshine blueberry. It only needs 150 chill hours. The BEST blueberries I’ve ever tasted, hands down. We’re getting cheated by what’s in the stores.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Things are slowing down for us with the warming temps, so we may take a few fun field trips together, like the biosphere, or foraging up north. Update wise, Corn has finished setting up aquaponics and one of our friends also gave us permission to share these beautiful desert pics. Enjoy.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My garden looks so wild, and I am loving it so much!

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

@dvnprt.bsky.social, @bencookman.bsky.social and I went to a farm tour today at the GORGEOUS Edge of Nowhere Farm in Wittman. It was a ton of fun and we won some Blackberry wine! We also bought some sugar cane cuttings, I’itoi onions, and Ben got a mulberry tree.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Corns garden is DONE! I’m jealous and may copy it for my front yard, one day. They also got a sweet new aquaponics set up, pics when that’s done!

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

My 5 year old planted seeds with me after the garden beds were ready. Seeds were being flung around left and right, and now I have 49 tomato plants between both beds/buckets/pots. I don’t even remember planting them, so I’m pretty sure a packet went flying when I wasn’t looking. 😬🍅🥫

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

These guys were already poking up out of the soil by quite a bit. First harvest of radishes!

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Yesterday we started building a garden for a good friends Mom. Not quite finished, but it’ll be beautiful when it’s done!

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

@bencookman.bsky.social has dubbed my garden as “Woodhenge”, and I actually like it! Another day spent with my favorite people, and we finally have a permanent fence. 💚 Next week we’re going to be building a garden for a friends mom from the ground up, can’t wait!

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We weren’t able to get together this past Saturday, but we all did our own thing! Corn built a massive garden bed that looks AMAZING. Ben helped me add irrigation to my beds and put sun shade over them also.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Garden update for my place! Planted so many beans, onions, melons, & squashes. One bed is in the process of being prepared for corn, and more to come since I have 5 types. I also found 2 volunteers, a pea & nasturtium, next to my compost bin! Lots of peppers, tomatoes & cucumbers are growing.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Garden helper time! Freya is one of the most neurotic shepherd mixes you will ever meet. Leaf falling? Bark. Someone daring to take a walk the next street over? BARK. She’s also very loving, very soft, and very very sweet. Lives for barking, licking people, petting and belly rubs.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

These 4 pictures cannot even remotely describe the amount of work done in Corns yard today. 2 trips to the dump, more tilling, bush and Bermuda grass removal and more!

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Corns house was on the schedule today. We got to smash a planter, pick worms and tilled the crap out of their soil. P.S. Bermuda grass can go burn in hell.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

We immersed ourselves in dirt today! Some of us more than others, like @dvnprt.bsky.social said. We also exchanged a bunch of seeds, and I cannot wait to try some of them!

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I was searching for a new seed company and found a great one! Alliance of Native Seedkeepers. www.allianceofnativeseedkeepers.com The seeds are AFFORDABLE (paying $5 a pack is not sustainable for me, and probably the same for others). They’re heirloom. Owned by Indigenous farmers.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I work at a college that has multiple gardens and I noticed that one now has a sign giving the ok to harvest. While I’m assuming they meant the tomatoes, I took that as a free pass to grab some marigold seeds that I’ve been coveting. Free seeds for the win!

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This project is never ending, but at least it’s mostly done. Also, a few more friends have joined us, so now we have 7!

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

What got you started on gardening? I’ll go first: 2023, my dad was dying of Pancreatic cancer across the country. I had nothing to take my mind off it, and I remembered the “green bean farm” he helped me with when I was 3. My son was 3 at the time🧵

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Irrigation lines and planters laid down at Ben’s today! Gryffin the Garden Rottweiler helped dig and obliterate Bermuda grass.

Left to rt: Corn, Lisa, Ryan, Tab and Ben

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I (Lisa) have been at an IT conference all week so no gardening has been done, at least at my place. We will most likely have actual gardening action on Saturday for Ben’s place! Here’s a post about one of our garden “helpers”. 🧵

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Today’s fun consisted of knocking down a brick wall and putting up the framework for what will be a garden Pergola at Lisa’s house. I think we’ve probably breathed in enough concrete to make us statues at this point.

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Sun and Soil Circle @sunandsoil.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

First post time! Do you like gardening? Do you like the desert? Give us a follow! We’re Sun and Soil circle, a group of folks that like gardening. We’re hoping to use this to chronicle the journey of gardening in the desert.

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