Ideas and Inspirations

Don’t we all love a happy ending? And what if the story line is about the simple happiness that can come from planting a potato?   For those of us garden lovers, we cheer along with others that find that being outside and growing things is life giving . . . that growing things gives us those happy moments and endings! Even though we are a small segment of the total population, hear us roar during

Don’t we all want to keep up great relationships with our neighbors? Besides being able to pop over for a morning cup of coffee, great neighbors also add some other fantastic benefits like an improved sense of safety, the ability to ask for and offer assistance and a stronger sense of community. Cohesion in the neighborhood is a vital social glue that promotes well-being and a sense of belonging b

Giving you the gift of knowledge once again and this month it is the topic of crop rotation of your veggie beds. The concept is pretty simple . . . different types of plants take particular nutrients from the soil and then there are some plants that actually give nutrients back to the soil. In rotating your crops each year, the plant isn’t depleting the soil of that particular nutrient in that loc