It was for me a serendipity that an acquaintance recommended the book “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer at this particular moment in time as one year closes and another opens. The book’s subtitle is, “Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the… Read More ›
In the garden-to-come in the new year, I intend to do some things differently, or better, and I figure it can’t hurt to say them out loud, in case my resolutions are maybe on your list, too. My friend Joe… Read More ›
The Latest Backyard Tick Research with Dr. Neeta Connally It may be the so-called garden offseason in many zones of the United States, but I’m not sure anyone told the ticks that. Ticks, and how those of us who spend… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nat Wheelwright on “The Naturalist’s Notebook” I suspect if you read this website and listen to my podcast, you are already something of a naturalist, that is, someone attuned to and enthusiastic… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach: Joan Maloof on Forests I’ve been adventuring deep into the forest, with what feels like a fresh sensibility – a new set of eyes, I guess you could say. Thanks to the collaborative… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach: Ali Stafford on Favorite Cookbooks Sorry to spoil the surprise, but if you’re on my holiday shopping list, you’re getting a cookbook. Besides gardening, home cooking is one of the only things in… Read More ›
A Way To Garden With Margaret Roach-Ken Druse Though many of you may share my disbelief at the fact that it’s already well into November, that hasn’t slowed the pace of your Urgent Garden Questions on Facebook and in the… Read More ›
Organic rose care, with scott arboretum’s adam glas I CONFESS to a decided dearth of roses here in my northern garden, with only a few species types in residence, but Adam Glas is positively surrounded by them daily in his job… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach: Murphy Westwood on Emerald Ash Borer All too many headlines in the science section lately speak of trees in trouble, of various forest pests and other pressures that are imperiling these precious living… Read More ›
A Way To Garden-April 29, 2013 Unusual Backyard Fruit with Lee Reich Apple trees— the fruit everyone thinks they want in their backyards—aren’t easy to grow East of the Rockies, as those who have tried probably noticed when they produced… Read More ›