North Country Reflections

Always a vegetable garden Everywhere I have lived I have made a vegetable garden …typically rectangular and sized to match whatever space was both sunny and near the house. The vegetables were delicious, but I always craved more. So when we moved to Vermont I decided the old potato field to the south of the [...]

Simple gifts Watching the wind ripple through a field of grass in the warm glow of the evening sun is pure magic. Likewise in the garden, when the delicate stems of eye-high grasses catch the sun and wind, this is one of the September garden’s simple gifts. Movement is magic. Grasses: queens of the fall [...]