When we found what would become our new farm one of the first things we noticed was that the primary form of heat was a wood stove. Oh, there was an oil furnace in the basement, but that was just for emergencies. It wasn’t ducted to the rest of the house. So while the basement […]
This is how I spent parts of the weekend: sitting on my duff, pulling leaves from greens that have bolted in the heat here in the District of Columbia. I planted my greens–mustards, arugula, mizuna–on March 13 and as soon as temperatures started to rise they wanted to burst into bloom. The mizuna was a […]
My wife hates to see men with their shirts off. “Who wants to look at your big, fat, hairy belly?” she grouses. But when it gets hot, men think nothing of stripping down to their shorts. And not just gardeners. On the running trails all over town, men are huffing and puffing and sweating bare-chested […]
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