What happens or doesn’t happen in the month of June sets the path of your garden for the entire season. You have a whole month to make the coming season a pleasure or a pain in the neck. The choice is yours! Plant on and forever enjoy! It is not too late to start...
Flower Farming
The Joy of Local Flowers: A Private Flower Market
It has taken much work and foresight to get here. Figuring out how to grow cut-flower, seeking those out that want to buy them and then to find the gumption to keep doing it year after year. Sharing the bounty of my labors with these delightful folks is a good part of...
Farming Survival Guide
I am going to share some of the habits I've gotten into during the no-harvest season. They prepare me to survive and even thrive during the crazy harvest season. I've come by these lessons mostly the hard way, but they have increased the joy and bottom line in both my...
Listening to your garden
I recently spent a Saturday on my urban farm doing some last minute garden chores before winter sets in (if in fact it is coming this year!) As it turns out, it was perhaps one of my most frustrating days I’ve spent in the garden in a long time. Let me explain. First,...