Hello Friends! I'm still here! I did not intend to take any time away but the garden has been demanding and so has life in general. You may have heard Minneapolis is once again in mourning after a mass shooting of children attending a back-to-school mass . And of course the hate-filled people in the …
Category: Gardening
The Sound of Monarch Wings Flapping
The milkweed has been blooming for a few weeks now and it is utterly delightful to see all the monarch butterflies flitting around the garden. I think of butterflies as slow and gentle beings, failing to remember that monarchs migrate thousands of miles every year. The speed at which they move through the garden is …
Hoe! Hoe! Hoe!
Friends, perhaps you will be astonished, but after all these years of gardening I finally discovered how amazing a hoe is. I know! What took me so long? For starters, I never thought I had a use for it. A hoe is intended for weeding and my garden beds are so packed with plants that …
Down the Rabbit Hole
This is not a rabbit but an Asiatic lily, var. "Tango" Even as we were literally beating the bushes around the garden trying to evict the second of the two baby rabbits, I read a blog post from an intentional community farm (whose name I cannot at the moment recall) about slow clothing and creating …
Had a Little Vacation
Oh friends, what times we live in! You have probably heard about the assassination of Minnesota State Senator Melissa Hortman, her husband and their dog, and the attempted assassination of State Senator Jim Hoffman and his wife, as well as the many names of other people on Boelter’s list. Neither Hortman nor Hoffman are my …
