Harvesting
Garden harvest photographs, an antidote for winter doldrums.
Cut flowers
Yesterday I harvested our first calla lily. It marks a tipping point, the moment that our succession of flowers (both wild and cultivated) begin peeking their heads out of their buds.
Orchard Guild
Planning and progress for our orchard guild plants.
Permaculture
Shortly after moving into our home, my husband and I enrolled in a permaculture design course. Over the course of sixteen weeks and various (detailed) assignments, we applied our learnings to our own particular corner of the earth, studying the sun and the wind, the waterways, the usage of the space, and the opportunities contained within it.
Sheet mulching
Adventures in sheet mulching an arid, weedy area at the bottom of our property where we established our orchard.
Loam
Hands-on soil testing and percolation testing throughout the garden.
Establishing a Garden
Establishing an edible garden is an act of optimism: that things will grow, that you will have time to tend it, that you’ll figure out exactly how to grow things that you have only a vague notion about.