Stories About Gardening
Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day! Thanks to all Mothers and friends who came to our farm to enjoy the early lilies, masses of larkspur, poppies, and beautiful breezes! Join us for a special, small group luncheon and an afternoon full of fun. The details and tickets are actually on this other page, so once more……
Read MoreFarm to Table? No, just dirt to mouth….
I had a beer with a scientist this week. She told me to buck up, get ready to face the future. GMO’s are nothing compared with what’s happening in Universities now. What’s coming down the pike, via the science of synthetic biology. It’s all amazing, scary, promising, complex and it’s going to be in your…
Read MoreTony Carr — Copper Artist, North Augusta, SC
Artist use things to focus other peoples attention. To help people see the beauty. Tony Carr made this garden frame and I’m trying it out…… I
Read MoreKnow Where You’re Going
The front seat of my truck was full of rice today. I drove gingerly. This was incredibly important rice and even if it wasn’t, I don’t want rice spilled all in the truck. The start of any plant is so full of potential that it’s priceless to the owner— to the farmer. Rice seedlings,…
Read MoreBackgrounds
What you see behind makes all the difference to how your garden looks. My background is really different from yours. Be creative. I’m outside about 12 hours a day this time of year. In the background of my life, a group of editors at Timber Press have been reviewing and marking up the manuscript I…
Read MoreShopping for Wood
We’re building a giant trellis. I love the day shopping for wood….. Here’s the first stop…. On to the Lumber Barn…. …
Read MorePerennial Plant Association, Baltimore & Books
It’s 6 a.m. pouring rain and I’m headed out to unload a truck of perennials and palms from Florida. I can’t wait. This is what I want to do — all the things involved in making gardening. From the soaking wet minutes and for the rest of the week, I get to think about how…
Read MoreBetter Than Boiled Peanuts?
I understood immediately when he said, ‘taste this’ that Mr. Ben wasn’t trying to trick me or wait to laugh as I grimaced. He was sharing. Now, he and I know and we know each other knows, the taste of the amber colored jelly that fills the bean pods of Kentucky Coffee Tree. He told…
Read MoreSnails, Nails, Puppy Dog Tails And A Blue Princess Dress
We had a bunch of children over New Year’s Day. These are outside loving young-uns. Who ever says youth is all tied to technology today, hasn’t met these dirt lovers. A second grade girl, one minute in a princes dress and the next minute tricking me into smell her hands — covered in putrid, rain…
Read MoreGo see it, Go love it. Preservation of Ancient Cypress.
Do you care what goes into the river and stream and storm gutter? If you go see the life, the magic the fragile and towering things that live in along our water ways, you do. Every little rivulet formed in in these rainy days has this kind of life beside it. It takes everybody. We…
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