Window Thinking
We have a couple cherry trees in our backyard that have been let grow through the years, making most of the cherries simply clusters of bright red spots way up in the sky. When we moved here three summers ago the cherries were past harvest time, fallen to the ground or picked off by birds. …
I was in the produce section of New Seasons grocery story on Monday when I saw this pile of garlic scapes labeled Specialty Garlic (sourced from Oregon, though I didn’t capture that fact clearly in my quick photo snap). I felt pretty spot on, having just harvested our first garlic scapes of the season the …
We have a hobby fruit orchard on our property. The trees had already been seasonally pruned when we put an offer on the house in March 2022, and a new growth cycle was just beginning. When Ethan and I flew down from Alaska to help my parents move into the house a couple months later, …
…..vegetable patches require a quid pro quo between plants and humans, where the plants get to keep growing so long as they produce tasty, nutritious fruit for human consumption. – Camille T. Dungy, in Soil
A green galaxy expands in the garden where the moon and stars shine.
Having worked through most of my puzzle collection this past year, I purchased a new one this month. This Cavallini & Co Bees and Honey puzzle was fun to put together and reminded me of a book I stopped to read while shelving picture books in the library a few years ago, so I checked it …
When is it time to plant vegetables in Oregon? This headline in the form of a question caught my attention and I paused to read the article in my news feed. “One of the biggest mistakes people make is to plant too early,” said Weston Miller, a horticulturist with Oregon State University’s Extension Service. “They …