The Enemy

Bindweed roots.  Found them in a layer of soil on top of a piece of landscape fabric that was protecting…

Starting Seeds

Began the late winter ritual tonight, with one small laborer.  I was management.

Straight Lines

It was seventy degrees today, and I spent the morning laying out the planting beds at the Cedar Ridge Farm…

Thaw

Fifty degrees on Valentine’s day, a gift to all the worms and birds and squirrils and people from mother nature,…

Seed Order

Here is the 2011 seed order list: Broccoli “Early Purple Sprouting”Cucumber “Solly Beiler”Cucumber “Marketmore”Huckleberry “Chichiquelite”Ground CherryKale “Blue Curled Scotch”Leek “Giant…

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…

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. …

Political Seeds

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

The Meaning of Life

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

Staying in Eden

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