Last week, I finally upgraded to an iPhone. It didn’t take long for my geek friends to convince me to download a very popular game.
Artichoke season has started and cases full of the flower buds are showing up in the markets. Yummy!
I’m lucky enough to be headed east to the Philadelphia Flower Show later today. I’ll be spending the entire day tomorrow walking around checking out acres of beautiful flowers and gardens with two of my very best friends. I can’t wait!
I picked up a new framing square the other day, as my old one was getting increasingly hard to read due to corrosion. Of course, when you buy a framing square, you get a great deal more than you may ever use, for a framing square is truly a carpenter's computer.
The National Humanities Medal is awarded to Wendell Berry, who promoted farm conservation through his writing.
Courtesy WindMade The WindMade label will be used indicate companies or products created using wind energy. For conscientious consumers who pay particular attention to how the goods they use are made, a new label is soon to adorn packaging to help make sustainability choices easier. The WindMade label will be the first global consumer label […]
Reader tells about how she finally got to move back to the country and start her farm life
Before you add these new peepers to your coop, give them a good start to life with these helpful hints.
Courtesy Forest Footprints Disclosure/ Katherine Secoy In the Forest Footprints Disclosure survey, global companies share how their operations affect global forests and have the opportunity to learn ways to reduce deforestation. Three U.S. companies were recognized for their sustainability efforts as part of an initiative to reduce dependence on products—such as soy, palm oil, timber, […]
It’s still too chilly to work much in the garden and the ground is still too wet to be worked properly, but the signs of impending spring are all over the place.
