Can you see my little friend here? It's a black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar munching on some dill in the garden. Upon closer inspe...

This is the view from my back pasture, looking out into the neighbor's field. This scene is so much better in person - the quiet and gen...

So this is what I heard last night. That's right, you try sleeping after that.

"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves." Gandhi

To be perfectly honest, I've not been particularly creative or productive, sculpture-wise, for the past two months or more. However, the...

A lighthearted, yet thought-provoking book that actually made me laugh out loud in a couple of places. In it, the author chronicles his expe...

one of the many sunflowers that are blooming

Find and enjoy the small beauties in life.

The garden has grown so much in the past couple of weeks and so I wanted to share an updated photo. The "three sisters" of corn, b...

Only two in my bug, but then two was all I was in the market for. Ever since visiting Shelley at River Bend Farm late last summer, and the...

Checking on the garden this morning, I heard some robins making quite a ruckus. Glancing into the yard, there was my standard schnauzer, Big...

Garden salad of green leaf, red leaf, and buttercrunch lettuces, parsley, spinach, diced radishes, sauteed baby beets, hard boiled eggs, and...

See, this is what I meant about bamboo getting sneaky when threatened. These tiny, little, seemingly innocuous, grass-like clumps are actual...

Living Seasonally by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd A wonderfully written book that's a pleasure to read. It puts into words so much of wh...

Yesterday was the first day that the broilers were allowed to go outside. At 4 weeks old, they finally seemed like they were ready. It was ...

potato, mustard, mesclun (salad mix), cucumber Aren't the potato blossoms just gorgeous? They'd look nice even in a flower border. S...

I moved here four years ago and have been battling a stand of bamboo ever since. Believing we could live in harmony, it started out with me ...

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Yesterday was spent with my sister and her husband at the New Holland horse auction. They were going to look for a pony for their youngest d...

I happened upon these delicate blue wildflowers over the weekend quite by accident. Other than the blossoms, they look just like clumps of g...