Category Archives: Gardening

Fresh-Milled Memories

I remember early autumns of my adolescence, helping make cider on the farm and in Kelvie Nicholson’s orchard, swapping turns at the heavy crank.

Tonight, for the first time, I miss my Dad.
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Truth and Beauty

Apparently, Randa and I are now feeding approximately half of the hummingbird population in northwest Missouri. Continue reading

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Multi-Tasking

With the low last night in the mid-sixties, this morning was just right for a bit of garden work in the early hours between dawn’s easy light and the cresting of the sun. Continue reading

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