Who Were the First Immigrants? British Now Known as Americans!

  • Post published:11/29/2019
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  Squanto, of the Pautuxet tribe, was a part of my childhood Thanksgivings. Squanto (Tisquantum) was captured by English explorers in 1605 and spent a number of years in England and learned to speak English. He also found his way back to the Plymouth Bay area in 1619 and learned that his own tribe had all died from disease. Massasoit, the sachem of the Wampanoags, and Samoset who had learned a bit of English from fishermen, decided that…

Half-Hour Allotments and The Artist’s Garden – Book Reviews

  • Post published:11/22/2019
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With the gift giving season drawing near I want to spread the word about new books that would please gardeners of every sort. In my house books are the one gift we know will delight. The Half-Hour Allotment by Lia Leendertz When The Half-Hour Allotment book showed up in my mailbox I was delighted to think of a system that would teach me to work an allotted half-hour at a time. How understanding such a system would be…

Create a Habitat Garden for the Birds and the Bees

  • Post published:11/17/2019
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In the olden days we gardeners would take a deep breath and go out to clean up the fall garden. There were dead annuals, and dead perennials gone to seed. There were dead leaves everywhere. The garden is a mess in the fall. That view of the fall garden has changed. Last month I attended Lorri Cochran’s talk, courtesy of Greening Greenfield, about how to create a habitat garden that will support birds, and bees and during the…

Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – November 15, 2019

  • Post published:11/15/2019
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On this Bloom Day I don't have any blooms, but I do have color. For the past week we have looked out at a hard frost. Beautiful in its own way. However we do have color. Somehow the yellow twig dogwood never photographs as accurately as my eyes when I look out my kitchen window and see the sun shining on what is a more chartreuse dogwood than its name suggests. It is because of its brilliant color…

Pumpkins of History – Pumpkins of Today

  • Post published:11/09/2019
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Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater Had a wife but couldn’t keep her Put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. Children have learned this little rhyme for generations. Hard to know what we all made of it when we were small, but the rhythms are fun and so is the image of a little housewife in her pumpkin shell. Boston can take some credit for this rhyme. It first appeared in 1825 in a…

Franklin County CiderDays – November 1-3, 2019

  • Post published:11/01/2019
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Franklin County CiderDays will celebrate its 25th Anniversary with three days of cider tastings, apple recipes, apple history, holistic orchard management, and more as well as the crowning of Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruiting trees and orchards. The party will begin on Friday, November 1 and end on Sunday, November 3 at 5 p.m. It is important to order tickets for some of the special talks as they always sell out, but there are many free events.…