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The $100 Tomato
If you’ve bought tomatoes lately, you may have noticed something alarming happening in the produce aisle. The humble tomato — once the dependable sidekick of salads, sandwiches, burgers, pasta sauces, ...
Club Notes Type: Gardening News
Breaking Ground in 1776
I can now confirm, dear readers, that time travel is not only possible—it is apparently best undertaken during peak growing season. I arrived just outside Plymouth on a warm July ...
Pollinator Rush Hour
There’s a moment in every June garden when things shift. It’s subtle at first—a flicker of movement near a squash blossom, the low hum of a bee that seems just ...
How to Use Mulch to Grow Happier, Healthier Plants
If gardeners handed out awards, mulch would never win “Most Glamorous.” It doesn’t bloom. It doesn’t climb. It rarely appears in seed catalogs with poetic names like Midnight Velvet Petunia.
How to Be a Happy Food Gardener
I’ve read more self-help books than I care to admit. Some were helpful, some were forgettable, and a few were written with such certainty that I half expected the author ...
The Backyard Protein Boom
If you’ve found yourself standing in the grocery store lately, squinting at an ingredient label and thinking, why does this need seven kinds of gum?—you’re not alone.
The Great Seedling Safari
After more decades than I care to count—let’s just call them “mini decades”—I’ve come to accept a hard truth about myself: I have purchased thousands of seedlings.
Grateful Hands, Greener Hearts
Every January I start seeds in my laundry-room window while the thermometer outside pretends it’s the North Pole. My 2026 resolution is to add a cold frame so I can ...
Home for the Holidays (with Houseplants!)
There’s something undeniably heartwarming about a living plant in Winter. While the world outside lies dormant or dusted in snow, a splash of green indoors reminds us that life is ...
Pumpkins, Pilgrims, and a Very Good Harvest
Greetings from the Autumn of 1621! That’s right—your faithful gardening reporter has hitched a ride in a horse-drawn wormhole to bring you a firsthand report from the very first Thanksgiving ...
