Oh friends, what does a gardener do when the snow is up to her knees and the air temperature is -5F/-20C with a howling wind chill of -30F/-34C? She curls up on the couch beneath a blanket with a book on orchards, seed catalogs, a hot cup of tea, and a huge imagination. It’s the …
Category: Gardening
Biking Through the Snow…
We got snow! Not a lot, just a little over 4 inches/ 10 cms. Of course it didn’t fall all at once but in little bits every day so the roads this week have been a perpetual mess. I knew it would snow eventually so last weekend I got my winter bike tuned up and …
Good COP, Bad COP
COP27 started yesterday in Egypt. Ahead of the conference, Egypt has been arresting activists, set up checkpoints where police randomly stop people to check their phones and social media accounts, created a complicated process for registering for the Green Zone, and are increasing surveillance by, among other things, installing video cameras in all of Sharm …
The End of the Garden Season
Just big enough to eat Last weekend, since there were only pole beans and squash left in the garden, I carefully placed protecting barriers around them so the chickens could finally be allowed in again. They were all standing at the gate between gardens, hoping that a treat was forthcoming. Little did they know what …
When You Rule the Roost
A Diva with the fluffiest butt We’d been out grocery shopping, and when we got home, I went out to the run to let the chickens out into their garden. They heard me coming, and Mrs. Dashwood stood in the coop door and started into the “I laid an egg!” song. I opened the run …
