When I was a young girl, I looked forward to the August weeks when I visited my great-aunts’ and great-uncle’s raspberry farm in Cambridge, New York. When our white Valiant crossed the bridge with the eagle on it, and turned down their dirt road, named after them, anticipation would rise. At the end of 4 […]

When you grow up with a mom (mum) who lived in England, you cannot escape a love for gardening. She caught my dad’s eye when visiting her sister, who married a GI Joe (Uncle Joe, honest). She went on a double date with my dad’s best friend. Six months later, she immigrated here to marry […]

Gardens … what a great subject! Almost all of us have, at one time or another, had a garden. We all have specific memories of each garden during our lifetime. My earliest garden memory was of my mother killing a rattlesnake in her garden. I know, I know, gruesome. When you grow up on the prairie in Colorado, rattlesnakes are […]

My gardening efforts started when I was a child. I grew up on a 5-acre farm with my parents and six siblings. My mother raised chickens and my father was a carpenter-contractor. He raised cows for beef. Between the chickens and beef, our freezer was always full. We also had a huge garden. We grew […]