Category Archives: Hansel and Gretel’s Forest Garden

All weekend I’ve been memorizing seed catalogs and nursery websites, obsessing over what to buy for this year’s garden and where to plant it all. In a fit of especially high-pitched mania I ordered a variety of tomato that costs … Continue reading →

The other day I was raking up the last of the leaves to pile onto garden beds, when a woman walked past across the street. “Can I ask you what the cage is for?” she hollered. Cage? What cage? Was … Continue reading →

Tomorrow is the day! I’ve been waiting and wheedling and decorating the porch with bright yellow permits for weeks now, and tomorrow a contractor will arrive at 8 AM to begin building my new garden fence! I should put cookies … Continue reading →

Hear that rumble, campers? Changes are in motion. Things they are a-happening! I have bought a house, and it has lavish stretches of green lawn that are just begging to be transformed into a forest garden. I know I’ve been … Continue reading →