It turns out, nearly every year we plan, work, plant, tend, and harvest a garden of edible treasures, there is inevitably some deeper truth mined from the soil and its produce. We’ve just begun this summer’s work, and already our strawberries have reminded me of a truth I often forget. See, we didn’t actually do…
Tag: Gardening
Full of Life
Recently, I was fascinated by poop. (Yes, you read that correctly.) Actually, it started in a public outhouse-style “restroom”. If you’ve never used an outhouse, or a “port-a-potty”, it’s just a big container collecting all the liquid and solid waste, rather than flushing it away down a nice, convenient pipe—out of sight, out of mind….
Lessons From Our Garden
At this point, I’d have to say we are successful gardeners. It’s kinda funny, because the last time we gave this a serious run, we were really pretty unsuccessful. We had many tomato plants that produced seven tomatoes. Total. All summer. And they were very tiny. (It really was sad.) Then most everything else turned…
Project: Backyard Ice Rink (Part 4)
A few people have been asking, “So how’s that ice rink of yours doing?” In that most of them live in the same region that we do, and have experienced this unusually warm winter along with us, I usually give them a wry smile and then gauge whether they are truly up for the full…