Eating meat from the garden

Wendell Berry famously wrote that “eating is an agricultural act.” Once you begin to think of food as the product … More

White on White

A heavy snow fell yesterday. Perfect for sledding, for coating fence rails just so, for catching on a small boy’s tongue. … More

It is time to order the seeds. I usually love looking through the catalogs, marking every single page with yellow … More

Seeds. Doesn’t it all come down to that? We dress up the meaning of life with our human values – love, … More

I imagine Adam and Eve left Eden in the late spring, which must have made it harder. Leaving a garden … More

Build stuff. I don’t remember how old I was when my dad first started teaching me how to build stuff. … More

I was given some cash for Christmas, and with it I bought my heart’s desire (or at least one of … More

We have woken up to snow three mornings in a row, and the ground is frozen solid. But there are … More

I don’t sleep well anymore. It could be the child, or the age, or the lack of exercise, but whatever mix … More

…but I’m not that ambitious. I like things that can be built in a day, or an hour and a … More