by Daisy | Feb 19, 2015 | Conversation, Fencepost
Boo. In an attempt to prevent the loss of the peach and plum buds which were just starting to swell, I inadvertently created a couple of ridiculous ghosts in the backyard yesterday. In what can only be described as a random act of horticultural cruelty it went down to...
by Daisy | Feb 7, 2015 | Conversation, Fencepost
My hometown has an organization called Project Green Fork. You can read all about it here, but briefly, it’s a way to encourage food service providers to reduce or eliminate the amount of waste they generate. They oversee a six-step certification process. Upon...
by Daisy | Jan 14, 2015 | Conversation, Fencepost
I remarked recently on Facebook that the thing I like about January is that it’s as far away from next January as possible, and that’s pretty much the truth. However, there are a couple of other things I can stand about January: New Year’s Day grub,...
by Daisy | Nov 9, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
Much of the garden writing I do includes a whine or two about how little sun I have in my yard because of all the huge trees. As our town’s favorite son was often heard to sing, a little less conversation, a little more action, please. (Now that’s a chain...
by Daisy | Oct 23, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
Back in 2008, or maybe 2007, we really can’t remember, Deanna and I had a phone conversation that was the jumping off point for this website. As I recall, we took the common blogger recommendation to stockpile a few posts before we went “live” to...
by Daisy | Sep 25, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
There they sat, six or eight of them in a small bowl, wrinkled, bruised and sad. Unusable. “Chickens?” my husband asked, pointing at them. A cloud of fruit flies arose at the disturbance. I sighed heavily, a sense of failure coming over me....
