Can I admit something to you? I love free stuff. I always have. In fact, I love it so much that when I was young and limited in my means,...

We’ve turned the corner; summer is half-over and this year’s garden knows it. The hopes and plans that were born last winter and spring...

They say a ‘watched’ pot takes longer to boil and I guess the same could be said of a watched seedling. Many a May I have found myself...

Until you’ve eaten Kale fresh from your garden, you may be wondering what all the fuss about this green roughage is. Kale salad, chips,...

A seed. A hope. A promise. That small kernel has big potential. Of course, it’s much easier to drive up to the store and buy a big,...

Visiting long lost cousins in Michigan this past summer, I was given little hairy seedpods from the homeplace my mom romped around as a...

It's harvest time! And if you've had a good crop of tomatoes this year, like I did from a plant someone gave me last spring, you're gonna...

As the summer sun fades, so do many of our garden flowers. If you haven’t already been cutting or pinching back the spent flowers in your...

Leaving the Rocky Mountains on a cross-country drive, I wasn’t looking forward to the slog across mid-America. With the flat, straight...

Life isn’t always what it seems. Is it? Sometimes it’s rough and hard. Forgotten. Or lost in the mundane. When you look at a sunflower...