The Perch

Observations from the garden. The kind worth keeping.

  • Accidental Stewardship

    You probably didn't plant your zinnias for the bees. But once you learn how much your small patch of earth can do for the world, it's hard to unlearn it.

  • The Night We Almost Kept a Deer

    Some of what a garden gives you can't be planted or harvested — like the evening a baby deer showed up in the flower bed and the children tried to keep it.

  • The Things I Meant to Write Down

    Every October I try to take inventory of the season. I'm starting to think I've been writing down the wrong things.

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