Eden of Garden

Garden

  • The War on Bugs

    When you are a gardener, something is always trying to destroy all your hard work. It’s frustrating. Seems like most of my conversations with other growers involve commiserating about the shit that’s eating our garden and brain storming about how… Continue reading

    The War on Bugs

  • The Robin Whisperer

    It started a few years ago when the robins built a nest in our pear tree. Dum dums. It’s not that we don’t like robins, it’s just that the birds built their nest too low. Too low for what? Snakes.… Continue reading

    The Robin Whisperer

  • Orach is the New Black

    When I look into my purple gazing ball, what does the future of vegetables look like? Orach. Move over kale, there is a new veggie trend and its purple. These ancient little leaves are packed with nutrients and are much… Continue reading

    Orach is the New Black

  • Growing Really Slow Food

    Asparagus is a practice in delayed gratification. Unlike lettuce — 25 days, wham! You’ve got a salad — growing asparagus takes YEARS. Years?!? I was hoping I hadn’t heard that right. Did the Boss really say we have to wait… Continue reading

    Growing Really Slow Food

  • Planning for Abundance

    We migrated back to the Eden of Garden three weeks later than usual this year. This typically would not be a big deal to me — May in the UP sucks. May in the UP is like going back in… Continue reading

    Planning for Abundance

  • Put your butt in the seat and eat

    “This food is the gift of the whole universe – the earth, the sky, and much hard work. May we live in a way that makes us worthy to receive it.”  – Thich Nhat Hanh We have a big problem around here:… Continue reading

    Put your butt in the seat and eat

  • Willy-nilly

    Willy-nilliness will absolutely not be tolerated in the Eden of Garden. And this is a source of many a tense moment between the Boss and me. He is a carpenter and a builder with the mind of an engineer and… Continue reading

    Willy-nilly

  • Returning

    Nothing says welcome home like the crunch of thousands of dead fly carcasses. Continue reading

    Returning

  • Harvest Till You Drop

    Tis the season of late-night canning sessions. Saucing tomatoes before the fruit flies take over the house. Preparing plums for drying until my fingers are purple. Making pesto cubes until I can’t stand the smell of basil. Yanking the squash… Continue reading

  • Eating Season

    Gordy sleeps with his tomatoes. At least that is what he told me. That way he can feel what the tomatoes are experiencing. Are they getting too cold? Too wet? Maybe too lonely? He plants them six feet apart. His… Continue reading

  • Communion

    Last day of July already. No wonder the harvest is becoming more and more bountiful each day. I’m overwhelmed by its abundance and most appreciative. One thing all of us who attend the weekly Farmer’s Market, to sell and to… Continue reading

  • Beth’s Beans

    Back in the game thanks to pounds and pound of bush beans. Green beans, yellow beans. Pounds every day. Loving them now. Will be making me cringe in a few more weeks when I will be over eating beans. But… Continue reading