About Pat Stone

Pat Stone

Pat is Founding Editor of GreenPrints, having established GreenPrints in 1990 as a unique gardening quarterly print magazine that is filled with entertaining, funny, and heartwarming stories about gardening and life. Pat’s vision continues to guide the editorial mission of GreenPrints, and he ensures that every published story is worth a read by subscribers.

Articles by Pat Stone

Harvesting Wood

Harvesting Wood

I’m out in the forest alone—well, I do have my chain saw and beat-up pickup for company. I smell the crisp, fresh air. I bask in the November sun, whose  …
(almost) Ground Zero

(almost) Ground Zero

We interrupt our regularly scheduled garden story . . . because we have been severely interrupted ourselves. By Hurricane Helene. North Carolina’s Asheville—and our outlying community of Fairview—were the areas  …
(almost) Ground Zero

(almost) Ground Zero

Illustrated by Nick Gray *For everyone who has been asking how Pat Stone is doing in Asheville - we heard from him and here is his first hand account. North Carolina’s Asheville—and  …
A Spring Gardening Poem

A Spring Gardening Poem

There are many things I love about Spring. The smell in the air as the earth unthaws and the soil emerges again. The sound of birds returning home. The sight of forests of  …
Growing Points

Growing Points

Shep Ogden, the fellow who started The Cook’s Garden seed company, happened to drop by last Summer, the day after the neighbor’s cows broke through the fence and chomped all  …
Even Adam

Even Adam

Countess Elizabeth von Armin wrote, “If Eve had had a spade in paradise and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that said business of  …
Requiem for a Rototiller

Requiem for a Rototiller

Oh, she’s dead. She is dead. I mean, she’s had her cantankerous moments before. Those times when she wouldn’t start no matter what. The days when she sputtered around all  …