It felt borderline devastating last year when we lost fruit tree after fruit tree and vegetable after vegetable. Chickens, cows, grasshoppers, drought, a new baby… clearly it was not meant to be. The heat of summer was fully upon us in June when Stewart walked in from his morning chores. He had that pragmatic, stiff-lipped,…

Seeds are miraculous little things. They stay dormant, so long as you treat them well. They give life, so long as you give them what they need. They are tools used to grow food and then produce seed again… to grow more food. I thought I knew that. And then I read The Seed Underground…

It started when we opted to rent an older duplex just out of town rather than the fancier apartment with a dishwasher in a concrete complex. We turned up a small patch of soil on the edge of that backyard and planted just a few onions and some lettuce. The rest, as they say, is…