My Kitchen Garden
While I don't consider myself a farmer, I think I might be a gardener. We've set aside approximately 3,000 sq.ft. at the front of our farming area for me to have a "kitchen garden," where I'll grow all...
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My four-day Easter weekend started with a beautiful sunny day, so I asked Brock what I could do in my garden. (How handy, to have my own personal gardening advisor.) Brock had spaded my kitchen garden...
View ArticleEdible Weeds and Other Apocalypse-Friendly Foodstuffs
Our past four years at Makaria Farm have been a gradual process of getting to know our land: which path the water takes across the field when it rains in the winter; where the wild rabbits live; where...
View ArticleThe Story of Makaria Farm
I write a column for The Winnipeg Review, an online literary magazine. My first column was published January 18, 2012 and is online here. Excerpt: In the spring of 2007 we decided that our city life...
View ArticleThe Reluctant Farm Wife
I write a column for The Winnipeg Review, an online literary magazine. My second column was published February 21, 2012 and is online here. Excerpt: I invented the iPod. I was walking past an antique...
View ArticleDeath and the Farm
I write a column for The Winnipeg Review, an online literary magazine. My third column was published April 9, 2012 and is online here. Excerpt: On a hot August day a middle-aged Greek man strides...
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