It turns out we should not have been almost completely sure that Little Bun had been chased from the garden. Our certainty made us blind. Beans kept being eaten. Squash flowers kept disappearing. We made up excuses. We just hadn't noticed before. Squirrels. Always blame the squirrels. Then Tuesday night we were watering the garden …
Category: Chickens
It’s Getting Quiet
There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example--where had they gone? … On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring …
Garden Hectic
Gardening season is in full swing, and every spare minute I have is spent thinking about the garden, doing stuff in the garden, or recovering from doing stuff in the garden. It is a hectic time of year and I do not like the urgency and rush of trying to do everything in between working …
Spring, Where Art Thou?
Yesterday was Earth Day, and, judging by all the sale emails I received, it’s apparently now a shopping holiday for “green” goods. But even if the item is “Earth Friendly” it’s still consumption of (very likely) something people don’t actually need. And if you don’t need it and buy it anyway, you are not being …
And Sow it Begins
See what I did there? Ever find yourself in a state when you comprehend how all the things interconnect and can actually see the threads clearly? You pick up a random book and you see how it talks to the other things you are reading? Or you get a newsletter in your email and it …
