Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
You can grow a bumper crop of kindness and healthy veggies too, when you pair a a bunch of green thumbs with the biggest hearts around. That's what's happening around here, in a community plot managed by the nicest, most prolific group of gardeners in all the land. Located right behind the St. Joseph's Food [...]
In an August garden full of gems, tomatoes hang like rubies. We wait for them all year and then eat them as fast as our constitution allows. Homegrown tomatoes finally made their way to our neck of the woods and my salads couldn’t be happier. They showed up on our family text chain as well, [...]
I looked out my kitchen window yesterday morning and found a perfectly landscaped little backyard. My neighbor Linda's plants had generously stretched themselves over and under our fence to gussy up our yard in magical ways. I never lifted a finger. So, I wrote this poem. I should note that we love all of our [...]
Dear basil from my neighbor’s garden, You have changed my life. Before I met you, I thought fresh basil was for pasta and pesto and other forms of deliciousness that leave bellies warm and breath just a pinch garlicky. But, you! Thrust into my hands by a green-thumbed magician and smelling like summer on the [...]
We grow a random garden on the inside of our home. From some angles, it looks like a hodgepodge – two pansies from the May Day basket our neighbor Diane left at our door, some spindly sprigs of grass from a preschool project, a radish that has gone to seed because no one wanted to [...]