From the Farm

Solitary wild bees like this bumblebee nectaring on Torch Tithonia (Mexican sunflower) provide essential pollinating services to wild and garden plants.

From the Farm: For the Wild World

The challenges facing the monarchs and the wild bees bring illumination and duty to protect what we put in peril.
A damaged tiger swallowtail imparts lessons of hope and tolerance, respectively.

From the Farm: Foundations

May the stories and fables of childhood that helped form our patterns of life continue to gently steer new generations.
Clearing wildflowers of overgrowth, an unexpected perk: a box turtle encounter.

From The Farm: Pathways

The work around the homestead has the double result of clearing the present and revealing the past.
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From the Farm: Assembling the Elephant

Pieces of lives are just that until someone stands back, considers and stitches them into a living, breathing whole.
Judy Carson watering the restored garden late in the day in early June.

Saving the Good Stuff

A small memorial garden gets a new life 15 years later.

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Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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