THIS is Why You Don’t Plant Tomatoes in April

April 28, 2015

Take your boots off before you come in here!

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There’s a New Trout Guy in Town

April 27, 2015

Filling the pond with trout is one of the magical things we do here each spring. I like to think of trout as a gateway livestock. If I start with trout, I might soon be plucking eggs from beneath my flock of chickens, racing piglets through the orchard, and knitting sweaters from my freshly shorn […]

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My Dream Dribber

April 22, 2015

Now I love diamonds as much as the next diva-slash-farmgirl, but sometimes it’s the simplest things that make my heart race. I’ve been dreaming up a Dream Dribber for years now and I’ve been whispering its specs into my husband’s ear each spring, usually after I’ve done all my planting. But this year the whispering, the […]

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Fabulous Friday!

April 3, 2015

Ouch! In a good way.

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Will Trade for Garlic

March 23, 2015

I grow enough garlic each year to feed all of Sicily, but it still never seems to be enough. Garlic is worth its weight in gold around these parts. I can’t give away even the finest specimens of my fancy heirloom squashes, no one gives a rat about my Striped Green Zebras or a fistful […]

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Hope by the Packetful

March 18, 2015

Life seems to go completely dormant as dirt, silent as snow, pointless as pajamas, until my little packages of sunshine arrive. Seeds are happiness in a packet. They are hope by the handful. A box full of seeds means anything is possible. Soon the world will be more delicious.  I start dreaming of next year’s […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

April 23, 2014

Spring nubbins.

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Seed Tape: A Neurotic Vegetable Gardener’s Drug of Choice

April 20, 2014

I do not mind a messy sock drawer, I can leave a bed unmade for days, I discard rejected outfits at the foot of my bed like a petulant teenager, and I have gotten a ‘talking to’ from Mr. Muddy Kitchen on more than one occasion for a used strand of dental floss hardened onto […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

July 24, 2013

My little friends!

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Little Fried Things

July 22, 2013

I’m no snob when it comes to fried stuff; I like it all. The crispy bits at the bottom of a barrel of KFC. The browned edges of a pancake that’s been cooked in too much oil (Oops, how did that happen?). A chunk of golden bread on the end of a skewer fresh from […]

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