Living With the Wind
Here where we live, on the Vermont side of northern Lake Champlain, we get a lot of wind. In the Summer, it whips the lake into whitecaps, rips the laundry …
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My Soon-To-Be Labyrinth Garden
When I was young, my family lived on a farm at the edge of a very tiny country town. I didn’t have a lot of other kids nearby to play …
My Horseradish Folly
To understand my egg-in-the-face horseradish mishap, first you must know about gefilte fish. Gefilte fish is an ethnic food that originated with Jewish folk of eastern European origin. …
Garden Wisdom for Every Day
Yesterday morning, I walked out to the vegetable garden and dug up the leeks. The crusty snow had insulated the ground before temperatures plummeted. …
My Ninety Acres
I had a friend, a little old man, who lived over the hill in Pos-sum Run Valley in a small white house on a farm which is known as “My …
After the Spring
I have never understood why we keep a garden and why, 35 years ago when I bought my first house in the country, I started digging up a patch for …
Kids and Gardening
My first gardening experience was a memorable moment in my life. It took place when I was five years old. With reckless abandon, I took a hoe and made a …
Nana’s Garden
I had definitely decided to give up fruit and vegetable gardening. Just flowers from now on. Oh, I’ll keep the pumpkin and gourd patch that spreads over the side yard—if …
Wells on Walls
Stone walls do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. Thus whispered Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey …
