A friend recently wrote to me with a garden question: We’ve had great success with our little garden over the past five years now. Always a bounty of tomatoes, beans, peas, and greens and even summer and winter squash now that the bees have found us (I swear there wasn’t a flower in a 1 mile …
Crop Talk: How to get rid of Squash Vine Borers (and improve your harvests!) Read More »
Fresh powder covers the fields. The wood stove is cranking again, keeping us warm through this snap back to winter. The greenhouse, however, is a spring haven—and on sunny days like this one, almost a summer haven.
A friend recently asked me if she should plant seeds that she’s had hanging around for a few years. I told her maybe…
Today was one of those days in early March, when the sun warmed the fields and that distinct spring smell of roots, mud, and grass rose into the air. It was one of those days that, lacking a weather forecast, would trick you into thinking spring was here for good. Of course, forecast or not, …
The Spring Jump: When to Start Seeds and When to Wait Read More »
Early February brings the whisper of spring and a whole dumping of snow. That small spring whisper comes in with the sun, stretching a little longer into each day. Meanwhile, gusty wind whips up our hillside and creates a snow vortex between the hoop houses. Despite what the fields look like, inside the greenhouse spinach and …
Welcome, friends, to The Good Heart Life: A life in progress, made with sweat and muscle and gentleness and love. A life constantly evolving amidst finished and unfinished projects, and projects yet to be started. A life that turns with the seasons and seeds and harvests. A life that roots into soil as it stretches to …
