Welcome to the Two Rivers Garden! ... or at least, the future Two Rivers Garden. I'm Lori, and I just moved into my new home, which is near both the Feather and Yuba Rivers in northern California. I'm in an area which is dominated by fruit orchards, and which has nearly perfect weather for year-round gardening. I'm an organic gardener who has, for years, been an apartment-dweller, working in small space gardens and rented community garden plots. For all this time, I've been dreaming up my perfect garden. I'm starting small, and going from there; I have visions of fruit trees and grape vines done in espalier surrounding a myriad of raised beds filled with vegetables. But one has to start at the beginning, and in this case, the beginning was mowing down nearly a foot and a half of overgrown grass in the back yard; that part, at the very least, is done. I've begun the process of constructing four raised beds, insofar as I have the parts for the beds themselve...