Winter 2015 Online

How to Decide What to Grow in Your Garden

Are your eyes bigger than your garden? Here are a few tips to strategically choose what to grow this year (with a little room for what simply makes you happy).

February to a Vegetable Farmer

“Instead of staring at gray skies and dreaming of sunnier days, I hold tight to winter. Winter is my solace—a gift after nine months of exhaustion, sweat and aching muscles.”

The Seed Catalog

“The very act of planting a seed changes the world. This is why the seed catalog is such a powerful piece of literature.”

Putting the Farm to Sleep

“So begins our farm’s transition back to those months of rest and then deep hibernation. Sleep, that most precious of commodities…”