Planning For Spring: Seed Shopping

I’ll admit it. I have a compost box, but I’m a lousy composter. Every spring, I make a renewed commitment to manage the compost successfully. I layer nitrogen and carbon materials, water the pile until [ … ]

For thousands of years people have been preserving seeds, and not just for consumption. Properly stored seeds ensure that farmers have seeds to plant new crops the following year, and they also ensure the survival [ … ]

They survived without the modern tools we have today, on only the land, instinct and the knowledge that their ancestors passed down to them. They respected the land and it yielded for them; they were [ … ]