We Are Content

By Trish Rubin Slowly, the gardens are being prepared for their winter rest. They gave us so much this growing season and now it’s time to settle in for the long winter’s respite. These pictures, mostly, are of my section of the garden with the broccoli and cabbage from John’s. We have slightly different gardening techinques […]

The Roots of Sisterhood

by Jennifer Langille Every now and then, a book comes along that sweeps you off your feet and stirs something deep in you. About a year ago, I had the pleasure of reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. This remarkable book delves into creation stories with Mother Earth and the teachings of plants, exploring the […]

Petrichor: Euphoria in the Garden

By Jennifer Langille with Elizabeth Spence Jennifer writes: It was a fresh July evening, and I was on my kneeling pad, weeding the vegetable garden. FAT (finger-and-thumb) weeding has always been my preferred method.  Direct hands-on. Personal involvement. The birds were singing their summer tune and I was blissfully lost in my task. The automatic […]

My Grandma’s Yard

by Michelle Robinson Our back yard won’t win prizes. It could really use a fix. In winter we don’t notice when the snow piles up and sticks. But springtime’s busy springing and our back yard’s springing, too — Buds and shoots and . . . who knows what that is, but it sure grew. This […]

A Potted History of Gardening

A Potted History of Gardening: Back to Nature by Elizabeth Spence  We have been making gardens in one form or another for thousands and thousands of years. Prehistoric farmers set up their forest gardens for growing food.  They cultivated plants and trees – not always in forests – but in ways that functioned like forests.  […]

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