Asparagus is spring’s first vegetable, one of the few things on our dinner plate that we harvest from a perennial plant, meaning one that comes back from its own roots every year. Other spring vegetables, like lettuce and radishes, are quick-growing, cold tolerant...
To look at the garden now you would think it was dead and lifeless. We are accustomed to thinking of plants as if their being was embodied in their green and growing leaves. But it isn’t so, not really. The life of plants is in the root, not in the flesh. In perennial...
Gardens are made of water. It is literally the stuff of life of all growing things, filling and giving substance to cells and tissues and bodies great and small. At this time of year the garden’s living water is all on the move – if you stand outside in a quiet place...
Seeds went into the ground at the Cedar Ridge Farm in the past few weeks. Lettuce seed, so tiny it feels like chaff in the palm of your hand, beet seed all spiky and rough, and potato seed, which is really no seed at all, but chunks of the vegetable itself, dormant...
