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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • pot du jour

    This is the big casserole I’m working on, awaiting a knob. I have read that for ovenware, the bottom shape most resistant to thermal shock…

  • Inside the hoop house

    Isn’t rainbow chard lovely? This photo doesn’t really do justice, as the sun was setting and it looks best in the warm light.  The cold…

  • Greenhouse

    When frost threatened, I stretched the top over the hoop house, and yesterday when Jeff got home from work he helped me put the ends…

  • Entry for November 3, 2007

    In August I put up the frame of a cheap hoop house that I got on season-end clearance. I planted mache, lettuce, spinack, green onions,…