I'm In The Garden Today

The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm. ~Arthur Conan...

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." ~Dwight D. Eisenhow...

August, for me, was the beginning of three months of intensive harvesting and food processing. Kettles of salsa, tomato sauce, and corn do...

Where flowers bloom, so does hope.   ~Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady and wildflower advocate, 1912-2007 This beautiful flower with dr...

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. ~ Henry Mitchell, 1924-1993, American garden writ...

Weather means more when you have a garden.  There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your g...

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all...

"To dig in one's own earth, with one's own spade, does life hold anything better?"   ~Beverly Nichols, 1898-1982, Briti...

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison (16...

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh proverb Ruts are easy to fall into. I don’t mean the kind along t...