Ice Matron

Cold…cold…. cold…..  GOOD! YES I am shivering on my walks as the temperature plummets. But I love it. Cold weather makes me feel great. (Full disclosure: as long as my sinuses are covered.) Deep freezing must be death to mold spores, right? — everything smells so clean outside. Death also to some bacterias.  My energyContinue reading “Ice Matron”

WHO Says?

This is a blog about gardening, growing you own food in a suburban setting. Creating your own food stream. Today we spend a minute or two on the why of gardening, on the larger picture of what we eat, and why, and who says so. It’s all my pediatrician’s fault. I sat in the pediatrician’sContinue reading “WHO Says?”

How Does Your Muscle Grow?

So friends, ’tis true, your garden beds are bare. But there is something that we gardeners can still be growing — even in this dark and dreary, un-gardenable season. You don’t even have to go outside to do it. Yes, I thought, as I huffed through a plank (yes one plank) this morning, this isContinue reading “How Does Your Muscle Grow?”