My compost bins are camouflaged with morning glory vines, just as i had been hoping for. In fact, the compost bin is so well camouflaged (...

Ripe tomatoes. Tomatoes that actually taste like tomatoes. Juicy red, red tomatoes. The tomato harvest is coming in, so every day, i have ...

The garlic harvest is in: 200 heads of big fat garlic cloves. (I get these great results with stiff-neck garlic, not with soft-neck.) So, pe...

Last evening, i gave a Dharma talk at Northampton Insight , and Susan, the facilitator, brought me a bouquet of phlox from her garden. By ...

While meditating in the dark at 5 a.m. the other morning, i heard a little nibbling noise in the kitchen. I had been seeing chewed cherry to...

Naked Ladies are blooming! In fact, they are dancing throughout one of my flowerbeds. Lycoris has pink amaryllis-type flowers atop a 3-f...

The lacewing is a beneficial insect that eats aphids. I particularly love the lacewings' diaphanous green fairy wings. The larvae of t...