“Looking for inspiration and relaxation? It’s all in your own backyard.”
Report From PIA – December 16
A conversation with a fellow writer, and a walk through Chinatown, started me thinking about my front yard. See, among the stores on Grant Avenue, I spied a garden planted on the front of a building. This reminded me of an earlier phone call, when I was relating to Susan [...]
Report From PIA – October 22
Sometimes we have to put time and effort into something knowing, or hoping at the very least, that it will pay off in the future. Parents will take this approach if they want their kids to be reasonable human beings, and gardeners come to embrace this methodology as well.
I went [...]
I taught a class on vegetable gardening at a local garden center last week and it was standing room only. Over a hundred people crammed into the big greenhouse to hear about growing their own food. There were 20-somethings, middle-agers and retired folks; all levels of gardening experience were represented.
This interest in vegetable gardening isn’t [...]
In a recent email from Wayne Winterrowd he commented on a visit to our property shortly after we moved in: “I LOVED the fact that you were putting your vegetable garden in the front lawn!”
When Wayne visited, the slope between the front of the house and the road had been cleared but was still [...]