Living On Da Hedge

In my last post I babbled on about how to cook with garlic mustard, but there is the other side of this plant too.  Like garlic, that di...

Garlic Mustard, Jack-by-the-Hedge, Hedge Mustard,  all names for this plant that seems to grow almost anywhere.  Garlic mustard has a...

Four and a half years ago I was introduced to potato towers by an urban homesteader friend of mine.  She always had the earliest new ...

Often people see significant historical events as being linked to significant incidents in history.  Certainly this can be the case.  Pl...

It was 77 degrees today with no below freezing nights in sight.  It looks like maple season is over for the year 2012.  And what a year it w...

First, I feel I have finally caught up on everything and now have time to be online again.  I'll make a post on '2012, The Year of M...

The downy rattlesnake plantain is not actually a plantain.  It is one of our Eastern evergreen orchids that loves dry, sandy woods.  The ...