Gardening & Outdoors w/ Kids

Goodbye Community Garden

Allison / January 31, 2012

For a couple of months in the fall and early winter we were running back and forth frequently between our […]

Allison / January 21, 2012

By mid-November, I was starting to feel a little bit guilty about the kale. It had been quietly patient, waiting

Allison / July 5, 2011

It’s strawberry season! It has been for a couple of weeks now actually, and I’d been itching to pick berries

Allison / June 9, 2011

This past weekend, Ben and I and the boys headed out to collect eelgrass for the garden. Eelgrass looks kind

Allison / June 5, 2011

With my thoughts on the less tangible aspects of our big Memorial day planting weekend in my last post, I

Allison / June 2, 2011

Memorial Day weekend is always the time that Ben and I do the vast majority of the planting in our

Allison / May 20, 2011

Last week we began our annual springtime push to get the gardens ready for planting. No matter how much we

Allison / May 12, 2011

Since the fiddleheads weren’t up yet when we checked on one of our favorite picking spots the weekend before last,

Allison / May 5, 2011

Have you ever been tempted to ignore your compost pile in the winter time because snow made it difficult to

Allison / May 3, 2011

It’s fiddlehead season here in Maine again! This is usually the first foraging outing of the spring for us, and