A perfect garden road trip destination in Boyce, Virginia! Mid-summer Garden Dreams By the time July hits, most gardeners are usually second-guessing most of the ambitious plans they had last December when they ordered seeds. We are either up early weeding and watering those ambitions, or saying we WILL be up early…tomorrow. Sometimes, it is […]
In this post, we will discuss apps, local classes local certifications, schools, conferences, public gardens and nature center programs, WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms), and intern and work suggestions.
Hosting pets, livestock and wildlife animals in your garden Hosting animals (pets, livestock or wildlife) brings joy to a garden. For the plants, animals and people, you can create a garden that welcomes all. The best part? The animals you invite will help you do it. Read on to find out how! Chickens Almost everyone […]
“Next year will be better”. Have you said this before while working in your fall garden?
I am the World’s Worst Beekeeper, for sure. The only part of “keeper” that I am not so bad about is that I actually do proudly in fact, keep bees (Did, till 2009, Ed.). And that should count for something when the average age of most beekeepers is in the upper 50s and I am […]
Jasmine with Cici Ten or eleven years ago (now 25 years ago, Ed.), shortly after we moved onto our own acre in the country, I began to hear the phrase “chicken tractor.” Of course, if you do not know what this is already, the image it probably conjures up is one of a shiny, red, […]
This is an ode to all women who live in the country, and chronicle the exciting and the mundane, and entices the rest of us to raise a lamb, plant a bed of asparagus, aspire to grow an entire meal’s worth of food, or at least eat locally for a year. These women have been […]
This is the part of the relatively sweet non-innocuous collection of posts where I turn off the honey and step onto the soapbox. I fear it may sound and feel like vinegar, but it is a reality here in Farm Country, and it is called drought. Very few places that have agriculture as part of […]
This year (Back in 2007, Ed.) Michael and the girls asked me what I wanted for Mother’s Day/ Since we’d fenced the front garden in, I could no longer see the big pond (which, if you read my post on Drought, has been pretty low anyhow), so I wanted a smaller, more aesthetically pleasing pond. […]
One gorgeous day last Fall, my youngest daughter Jasmine and I took a trip an hour south to Farmville for an open house at a large, diversified farm. There were pastured chickens, a petting zoo, people demonstrating spinning and weaving, musicians, dancers, food, and reps from different farms and farming interest groups, sharing their knowledge […]
