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Grow Better Fruit and a Better You: The Life Lessons of Thinning Fruit Trees

Galen Lehman July 11, 2009

Last week I did one of the toughest things I have to do all year. I pulled perfectly good fruit from most of

The Gift of a Chicken Story

Judith Costello November 5, 2008

Sometimes we feel we are too busy to stop and chat with our neighbors. Judith Costello tells us a heartwarming story of a gift that a usually shy chicken gave to Judith’s elderly neighbor. Are you too busy for such a simple gift?

Greetings From Nova Scotia: Prepping for Winter

lrose October 31, 2008

Here at Land’s End in Short Beach we are busily winding up the years work trying to stay ahead of winter! The past

Extra Garden Produce? Bank It and Make a Difference

Dori Fritzinger October 8, 2008

We have all been there. Our little garden produces great big yields, more than we can use. You have canned all your pantry

Getting Ready for Winter at Ash Lane Farm

cpthegreat October 8, 2008

Here at Ash Lane farm, we don’t have many animals to care for. We have about fifteen chickens at the moment and two

Good Neighbors

Judith Costello September 25, 2008

Have I ever mentioned that we call our place “Sagging Acres”? The fences are sagging, the barn roof is sagging, the horse’s back

The Quest for the Puffball

Kevin Wright September 25, 2008

I remember as a kid taking a stroll through the local neighborhood in search of a tiny mushroom no larger than a dime.

Wild in the City

Pat Veretto August 25, 2008

When I moved to town from the country a few years ago, this backyard was one of those pristine, closely clipped lawns with a lovely flower garden in the midst of it. Not anymore. The flower garden this year grew corn and beans and squash, and wild sunflowers graced the back of the garage. Smaller oil type sunflowers grew on the south side of the patio, mixed in with millet and whatever else was in that cup of birdseed I scattered there. So now you’re thinking I must be some kind of nut, else why would I purposely let my backyard go to weeds?