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Bok Choy
Childhood~Edible Plants~Story Garden

Bok Choy

Chinese cuisine has many kinds of vegetables, but the one I’m most familiar with is bok choy. Like other Chinese families, bok choy is the most common green eaten during meals in my home, and not a day went by without bok choy. Although we […]

April 3, 2020
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The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Smile
Edible Plants~Medicine~Shrubs & Bushes~Story Garden

The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Smile

Summers in California are marked by hands with deep purple liquid running along palm lines and in between the fingers, dripping off the sides and trailing down the wrists, tiny brown hairs stuck to fingers and palms. Every time I look at a pair of […]

October 17, 2018
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  I Love The Bees
Animals and Insects~Story Garden

  I Love The Bees

An Apiary in Hull? After I retired I attended a bee-keeping school and got my first hive the following spring. My apiary is located at the old family home which is four towns away. I live in a condominium on the ocean overlooking the Boston […]

August 2, 2018
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Pickling Cucumbers in Maine [Interview]
Audio~Farms, Gardens, and Yards~Story Garden

Pickling Cucumbers in Maine [Interview]

Click to hear Jim’s story   Me: Hi Dad. We’re sitting here in the backyard and I am hoping that you will tell me a story about a plant. Dad: When I was younger my parents used to take my sisters and I up to […]

July 17, 2018
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YAM
Poetry~Story Garden

YAM

YAM For those who love the earth The yam is a surprise– Versatile starch and tuber. A treasure beyond the red soil, The soul of earth Buried deep within Folds of mud and silt Clinging to her with a million fibrous nerves Feeding on water […]

May 1, 2018
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  • Juniper herbarium specimen collected 1929 by Susan Delano McKelveyLeah, My Juniper Bonsai Tree
    From the nursery I returned with what one day I would […]
  • Sweet Pea Herbarium Specimen (1917)Sweet Peas
    Sweet Peas by Donna Williams I am struggling to paint […]
  • Musing from Under a Moss Leaf
    Whenever I’m in the forest I like to imagine that I’m […]
  • Colocasia esculenta (L.) herbarium imageMy Ancient Older Brother- Kalo
    “Kalo is our oldest brother. An ancient ancestor.” I […]
  • Me and My Tomato Plant
    I was an avid gardener as a kid. I helped out at the […]
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