Christy favors fruit gardening, including berries, although they are often shared with the local wildlife. Her favorite “garden” is her fairy garden that she adds to each year.
January settles over the world like a heavy wool blanket, muffling sound and slowing time. This morning, the snow is falling again in that steady, unbothered way that makes everything …
As someone creeping up on 80 and still feeling sprightly, I often reflect on how I’ve kept my body moving, my mind sharp, and my spirit young. Turns out, the …
Here in the Northeast, January arrives with a sense of spacious calm, as if the garden itself is taking a slow, steady breath before beginning again. Snow softens the edges …
I am not a gardening guru. My thumb is beige and pink. Definitely not green.
I do not come from a family of farmers and gardeners. My parents were born and …
Here in the Northeast, December transforms the garden into something magical. Frost-kissed kale sparkles like it's been dusted with powdered sugar, evergreen branches frame the sleeping beds, and the whole …
When I was a child, one story in an elementary school reader forever changed the way I thought about maple syrup. The tale began with four small children trudging through …
The empty lot on the corner of Maple Avenue had long been an eyesore. A sagging chain-link fence, tangled with vines, encircled the cracked asphalt, radiating heat on Summer afternoons. …
When I was a child, parsley was nothing more than dried shards in a glass jar with a green lid—a hint of green, leaning toward grey, that only came to …
December has a way of arriving in a soft and unassuming way, as if carried in on the hush of snow-filled clouds. One morning you wake to see your breath …
Pears are temperate-climate fruit trees that thrive in USDA Zones 4 through 8, depending on the variety.
European pears (like Bartlett, Bosc, and Anjou) prefer Zones 5–7.
Asian pears (the …
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