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.
It was a very wet, cool spring here and almost every gardener I know is complaining about fungal diseases on their tomatoes. So far I’ve escaped them.
Fall is the perfect time to refresh your garden and keep growing well into winter.
More of my favorite Italian vegetables are starting to produce nicely in the garden these days.
This is the season full of local festivals where the locals gather and all eat together under big tents.
As the first photograph shows, the cucumber crop is doing very nicely this year.
The big news this week is the little jar full of red poppy seeds that I’ve collected.
We haven’t had a raspberry patch since we left our farm a few years ago, and I’ve been anxious to have one ever since but there was never the right place to put it.
