Maybe I should start marketing pictures of our Romaine lettuce (I think that’s what it is) to seed catalogs this year as champions of Romaine-ness. And if you steal a copy of this picture to represent as your own lettuce, I wouldn’t blame you. I don’t think anything we’ve ever grown has looked that healthy. …

If you had seen our garden last year, this picture might excite you as much as it does us–mainly because we saw our garden last year. It was a pathetic heap of sorry little plants that emerged late, struggled to survive, and died an early death. Granted, it was our first year gardening up here, …

I walked into my credit union two months ago, just as they were starting a remodel on their building. The counter was busy, so the manager called me over and helped me at her desk. As I sat there looking out the large front windows, it occurred to me that the wall in which they …

Yahoo! I galloped down and shot this image this morning before getting ready for work. Ain’t it purdy? These are our five raised beds freed, mostly, from pigweed and other distractions. You can practically see the food growing before your eyes! On the left you can see some of our fruit trees, including the two …

In the house, under a window, that is. Now all we need is for the snow to stop falling–and to figure out exactly how to coax productive plants out of the ground. We’ve had more snow this March than we did January and February put together. We’re getting about three inches a day; fortunately the …