The sun is shining, and the garden beckons. As you plan and prep for the spring and summer, consider adding a little handmade decor to your yard. This fun wind chime craft is an easy, inexpensive way to add some sparkling charm to your space. SUPPLIES  From the thrift store:  -Stainless steel flatware  -A metal …

Radish tea sandwiches INGREDIENTS Radishes, sliced very thin Sprouts or microgreens Sandwich bread Salted butter DIRECTIONS Butter two slices of bread and add the sliced radishes, slightly overlapping. Add a small bit of the sprouts or greens and top with the other slice of bread. Trim crusts if desired. Serve and enjoy! Maple roasted radishes …

If one has the privilege of visiting the well-worn grave of the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth at St. Oswald’s Church in Great Britain, one will see, carved on his tombstone, lesser celandine. He even wrote three poems commemorating this plant. That’s because he was British, and it behaves better over there! Here is an …

Primrose by Elizabeth Lawson (Reaktion Books 2019) Numerous adventures with primroses over the years, though one was more of a misadventure, inspired me to query Reaktion Books, a London-based publisher, about adding a book on primroses to its Botanical Series. This series features beautifully produced and illustrated books about important garden plants—for example, Rose, Lily, …

Every winter I take some time to research unusual primulas for my garden. I find that most are quite hardy, easy to grow, and thrive in my moist and shady beds. I love the taller varieties that attract butterflies with their vibrant shades of orange, yellow, magenta, and pink. Here in Clarence, New York, deer …

When I started my permaculture business in 2009 and was thinking about what I wanted to call it, I thought of my love of walking barefoot on the Earth (beaches, forests, and my own yard) and envisioned helping folks steward land spaces in ways that invite them and their families to take off their shoes …