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  • So Green Is My Garden: A Metaphor, Of Sorts

    Garden writing is the place where metaphors yearn to live their best lives. There is no concept of growth, renewal, regeneration, nourishment, cultivation, encouragement that cannot be communicated beautifully with the…

  • Seedlings!

    THIS year!  Is finally The Year! After ages and ages and ages of planning a Real Garden, we’ve finally tilled the soil and sprouted seeds.…

  • Choosing Plants and Choosing Plots

    My seed catalog from Baker Creek arrived today, which is pretty exciting.  I’m still eagerly awaiting the arrival of my Seed Savers Exchange and Seeds of Change catalogs, so I’m not…

  • Have You Ordered Your 2014 Seed Catalogs Yet?

    It’s all happening!!  Almost time to watch the temps begin to rise–as hard as that seems when we’re all hunkered down waiting for snow to hit Atlanta one. more. time this…

  • Simple Garden

    It has been a while since we’ve been able to put in a real garden.  Last summer, we lived in a rental house.  The summer before, we were “on the market,”…

  • Volunteer Tomato

    We never did get around to putting in a garden this year.  When we moved into our house, the backyard was a disaster, random baby trees dotted everywhere and no actual…