One Thing Was Enough to Start With
A friend sat at my kitchen table with a printed list of thirty things she thought she had to learn first. I told her what my…
Getting Started
The August I Nearly Stopped
After two weeks away for a family emergency I came home to a yard that had gone feral in the heat, and I sat on the…
The Argument We Had About the Back Lawn
My husband did not want the yard turned into a project, and he said so in the driveway on a Sunday in May. We are five…
The Yard Was Smaller Than I Thought
I finally took a tape measure to our lot one evening and found roughly a quarter of the growing space I had been picturing. It has…
Everything I Quit After the First Year
A year in, I dragged the seed shelf out of the basement and admitted I was not going to use it again. These are the projects…
The First Spring I Cut Sod With a Bread Knife
The first bed I dug was cut out of the lawn beside our driveway with my mother's old serrated knife, because I did not own a…