My wife and I counted six friends we know who have lost jobs in the last four weeks. I am not sure where the bottom is yet, but I hope we find it soon, so we can start rebuilding.
I heard a story about a man in Arkansas who somehow secretly bought the groceries of the [...]

We are gearing up for a bigger and better growing season this year. By using a greenhouse, we estimate a growing season that is at least three months longer than without. Next week we will be astarting seedlings, and by mid march (after the danger of frost in our part of Tennessee) we will be [...]

Every year about this time my mother talks about how hot it is getting in South Texas and I have to remember that it really is starting to get warmer down in her area.  That is why, about May, she wants to come visit us in the north and get out of the heat.  [...]

Just like renovating a home, renovating your garden can be a costly proposition if you’re not careful.  There are also some very costly garden structures that are just out of some consumers reach that are hard to replace with other alternative items.  However, an arbor can be a very inexpensive way to fulfill your [...]

Most people associate finials as those things on the tops of flag poles or the knobby things on the staircase; as one friend recently told me it’s the knob at the bottom of the staircase that robbed many a young boy the pleasure of sliding off the rail!  However, where you will see finials [...]

I heard of the slow food movement almost four years ago from my mother who is an avid reader and traveler.  She had visited a friend of hers in Ashville, NC who had a friend that had just started eating “slow food” and was fascinated by it because she was raised on a farm [...]