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Last week was the Mockingbird Moon, but the blog post is a bit delayed because I was so busy working on the garden, I was too tired to blog ...

Groundhog Day has come and gone, and I'm further reminded of how much sense a seemingly silly holiday would make to someone who has to l...

I finished the fermented hot sauce I started back in October  in time to give a bottle away as a Yule gift and keep a bottle for myself. Whe...

Pete Seeger is a personal hero of mine. I found out about him when I was a teenager, and always listened to him when I was feeling down. S...

When the "polar vortex" was visiting North America, we had a couple of nights with some good hard freezes (though in the daytime i...

Time to look at what I accomplished in the garden in 2013, and what my goals are for 2014. One big accomplishment of 2013 was I finally go...

The Yuletide is almost here, and we've had a few hard freezes now. I define "hard freeze" as a freeze enough to kill my tomato...