I may just have to stop reading my gardening literature. Twice in the last few weeks, I have read about a garden problem and then stumbled across it in my own plot just days later. It started with the fall issue of Zone 4 magazine, where I read an article about raspberries. The berry expert profiled [...]
Archive for the ‘August 2009’ Category
7 Aug
Filling a void (the sharecrop and fall planting)
Earlier this week a new friend, Marco, and I began a contemporary voyage into (the once abused term) ‘sharecropping.’ At two households that have, for all practical purposes, been in fallow for years (visual of one), the lords of the land are letting us fill the void by weeding or tilling, llama manuring or composting, [...]