Welcome

I started this site eight years ago when I first bought a piece of woodland and dreamed of building a cabin. The cabin still isn’t built, but there is a little garden there now, tucked away along a mossy trail…

If you look back through the Archives, you’ll see moments in the story of this garden – from the very first bed I dug in the only open, sunny spot I could find (The Midsummer Bee Garden) to my Grandfather’s Vegetable Patch, and on. Year by year I added another bed, sometimes with help, mostly not.

I’m restarting this blog now in Spring 2019 with a new look, and a renewed dedication to my garden and the food I want to grow there. A renewed dedication also to my woodland, whose trees I still don’t know as well as I should.

It’s not the most orderly garden. It’s not the most successful, by any means. Critters take much of what I try to grow. But it’s a beautiful place, and a peaceful one. As is the forest that surrounds it.

Perhaps soon I will build a cabin.

Clare

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