Have I mentioned that I’m in love with gardening right now? I’m finding it hard not to gush about my spinach, chard, kale, salad greens, and snap peas. We’ve also already harvested a couple of artichokes and lots of strawberries, and the hop plants are conspiring to take over our back fence. It’s thrilling to…
Here’s my review of Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates, which appears in the current issue of YES! Magazine. How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard by Abby Quillen In “Paradise Lot,” two residents of an inner city write about how they transformed less than an acre of…
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau “In the new good life, the point is not to have the most toys, but the most joys.” – John Robbins I was thumbing through a gourmet cookbook the other day, and the author recommended visiting farm stores to procure the most flavorful,…
For those of you who’ve followed my blog from the beginning, you know we got four fluffy backyard chicks in May of 2009. I chronicled our early days with them in The Hen Diaries. Raccoons, lost hens, a ransacked garden, that beautiful first egg … so much drama! You can follow our adventures as fledgling…
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” ― Thomas Jefferson I am happily in a season of gardening right now. We’re enjoying a beautiful, sunny late April here. All of our doors and windows are open, and our garden feels…
As promised, here’s my review of The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food by Janisse Ray. Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World is a Seed “The Seed Underground” is a love letter to the quiet revolutionaries who are saving our food heritage. by Abby Quillen Janisse Ray celebrates the local, organic…