Garden

You probably have native wildflowers growing in your yard and don’t even know it. We didn’t. We spent years looking at our backyard without really seeing what was growing there. This summer, that changed. It started with a garden. We added a lean-to onto our shop this summer — a little covered porch for morning … Read more

Don’t complicate it. Plant what you like. Plant what you’ll eat. It sounds obvious, but it took me years to figure that out. I’ve planted plenty of vegetables simply because they looked beautiful in seed catalogs or because someone on the internet convinced me I needed to grow them. Rainbow Swiss chard? Gorgeous. Kohlrabi? Interesting. … Read more