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POEM FOR FATHER’S DAY: Picking berries

On Father's Day, celebrating a beloved father-daughter ritual.

NATURE’S TURN: August turnover: garden digest

There is so much information to digest and respond to in the expanse of a mid-summer garden.

NATURE’S TURN: On the cusp of winter, Turtle Tree Seeds turns toward spring

Last week, on the eve of the deepest chill and wind chill of the season, I reached into reserves of dogged determination to secure my harvest of fennel, dill, peppers, French sorrel, amaranth and most of the turnips.

NATURE’S TURN: Gardener’s flight, garden’s trajectory

At the end of a day flying under cerulean sky above a sheet of clouds and traversing airports, my eyes exchanged the densely wooded, rounded hills of the northeast for Albuquerque, New Mexico’s fantastical Sandia Mountains.

NATURE’S TURN: Marvels of a polyculture garden

I am dousing all bean and cucumber plants with collected rainwater to encourage production while warm weather prevails.

NATURE’S TURN: August sun lights flowering, fruiting gardens and NOFA’s celebration of growers

Master Ruby Throat then flies to a neighboring structure with more scarlet blossoms, alights and, in a blink of an eye, is whisked away by another hummingbird.

NATURE’S TURN: Charmed and alarmed

There’s nothing charming about Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum), an invasive weed that is spreading along Berkshire roadsides.

NATURE’S TURN: Relationships thrive in and beyond the garden

With gardening season in full swing, I am also energized to redouble my efforts to interplant as many row-seeded crops as possible.
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