One of the most colorful plants in the garden these days is the big poke sallet weed growing near the central steps.
You might have read about our new chickens in a previous post.
I took the train to Milan last week, and was as usual impressed by the enormous agricultural activity in the Po river valley.
I was lucky enough to be invited to Rhode Island this summer to film a segment for the television show Cultivating Life.
We’ve got one lovely pumpkin currently fattening up in the veggie patch.
Before you purchase a property, be sure you know what’s in the soil. Everything from roadside pollution to illegal-drug contamination can affect your farm’s usability.
It’s fig-picking time here in Italy, and I get a significant amount of my daily snacks from the fig trees that are all over the place here.
The ladies have finally arrived! We have 6 happy, young hens - and one happy little boy.
The coastal mountains around here are famous for their vast network of hiking trails.
The facts are that gardening is often unrewarding, and plant death and failure is actually far more common than success.
