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

Gardening Critters Gone Wild

Gardening Critters Gone Wild

You know the little white bunny from Alice in Wonderland, right? Or say, Thumper, the one from Bambi? Cute… white fur… pink nose… you know the guy. This story does not  …
A Gardening Poem About Thyme

A Gardening Poem About Thyme

Many old European homes had keeps, food-storage rooms located off the kitchen. The meadow keep was for drying the family's culinary and medicinal herbs and flowers. Author and herbalist Elizabeth C.  …
Time in the Garden

Time in the Garden

Farmers live by the seasons, as do gardeners. And I like to polish my spectacles and dig deep into gardening science, testing my soil and measuring frost dates, sure, but  …
Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

I've always had a special affection for Thanksgiving. It seems to me the gentlest, the kindest of our holidays. There're no glaring red rockets or blowouts on beer. There's not  …
A Garden of Miracles Celebrated

A Garden of Miracles Celebrated

There are many quotes in today’s piece from Diana Wells dating back as far as 1597 about the premise that what we are cultivating is a garden of miracles in  …
Frogs in the Garden

Frogs in the Garden

Sometimes the fun of our hobby isn’t in the plants, flowers, or food we grow, it’s the animals in the garden (or, in the case of today’s story, frogs in  …
When Garden Talks Lead to Life Lessons

When Garden Talks Lead to Life Lessons

There are some garden talks that couldn’t have occurred in any other place. Most of my fondest memories, with the exception of my children being born, have taken place in  …