Yet More Cake

This one with chocolate mint and lavender. I don’t know who ate this cake, or whether they enjoyed it. I … More

A long row to hoe

This is my other garden – the Cedar Ridge Community Farm, where what we grow is given to local people … More

My big brother had a birthday, and so I brought him a cake – my now-standard almond with raspberry filling … More

My two fig trees – a 6-year-old Brown Turkey, and a Celeste I just planted last summer – have set … More

One Easter morning, over ten years ago now, I walked to the market in my small town in Turkmenistan to … More

Candied violets. First you wash them… …then paint them with egg white and dust with superfine sugar… …and then you … More

The Bradford pears are in bloom. Everywhere at once, it seems. I’ve always thought of them as common trees, side-of-the-highway … More

As much as I love thinking about my garden all winter long, I am not much of a planner. Or … More

After a run of cold raw weather, 80 degrees today. The warmth seems to have energized a nest of wasps, … More