Compost: My Pile of Gold

My nephew recently moved to a new home in Connecticut and contacts me now and then for gardening advice. I have to say, these questions make my day. Not only does he send me photos and videos of him and his two young children working on their first garden, but it brings me so much […]

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Conversations: Amy Dingmann, Homesteader

I recently started following Amy Dingmann’s podcast, A Farmish Kind of Life, about life as a homesteader. Amy lives on a five acre homestead in central Minnesota with her husband, two teen boys, chickens, pigs, turkeys and ducks. They have a few gardens, a grapevine, and a raspberry patch. Amy’s matter-of-fact manner has led me […]

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Making the Bed — A Raised Bed, that is!

We have a grand experiment in gardening going on over here at Wildefern Farm. Tomatoes, basil, pak choi, kale, and lettuces are growing in containers — out front in full sun and out back in the kitchen patio garden. We’ve built gardens filled with flowers, gardenia bushes, rose bushes, more lettuces, pak choi, kale, and […]

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Of Toads and Roses

My love of roses hearkens back to Mom. She was always out working in her garden in Mansfield Center, Connecticut. Early on, when I was a little tyke and my older sisters were off at school, Mom and I would traipse into the backyard and build rock gardens from stones gathered in the woods (there’s […]

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Day One on the Pasture

Welcome to the Farm!

Our adventure began in August 2018, when we found 7 acres of pasture with woods and a pond for sale in Chatham County, North Carolina. The pasture photo was taken from where our new farmhouse now stands. As we stood pondering the land, we were overcome with peace. Nature’s sounds permeated the atmosophere. We were […]

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