A long row to hoe

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

Garden Cake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ornamental plum tree outside the kitchen window, above, and one of the camellias, below. I am not sure if…