Garden design, inspiration, and experience
We’ve consulted our landscape architects and they’ve supplied us with this rendering of the new farm. Ok, ok… This is a very very old farm (and we are our own landscapers, designers, chefs and bottlewashers)… but some things just don’t change that…
Ja Schindler, and many billion endomycorrhizae. Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend the second day of a two-day bioremediation workshop, organized by Nance Klehm and hosted by my buddy Bea. It was team-taught by Leila Darwich, on tour promoting her…
“The Factory Farm”, or studio garden. It’s a wild cottage corner where lemon balm, roses, and raspberries war it out with hops, strawberries, mint, and more. It’s riotous, chaotic, and charming, in an unkempt sort of way. Can you tell “The Secret…
Time-Machine… to June! This heirloom rose is spectacular for a week or so. Then it’s a sleeper until next summer, when Mademoiselle batts her eyelashes and blushes again. Till then, I gathered several baskets of petals for tea, soaps, and rose petal…
Just when you think spring must be coming… for it must! It MUST! The nightshades are sprouting, but in the basement, under lights, where what would they know of snow? They’re ready for the world, but it’s not ready for them. The…
This is the sunrise I woke up to yesterday… I shuffled out to the coop with my coffee, to supervise the dog’s chicken surveillance, and was half tempted to get back in bed with a book for a bit… until I looked…