Tag: trees

I’ve heated with wood for a winter, and I am pleased to do so, but it’s backbreaking labor to warm this way for a lifetime

Although my vision, and my neck, and my sense of balance, and certainly my sense of hope, were all impaired, I could still prune. And as I pruned, I reflected on the three trees that once grew near my childhood home ...

He seems pleased that he’s protected me and mine. Or maybe ours.

Many Marches ago, a tree cracked in half, and my life began to change into what it’s become today.

A tended garden inevitably involves some choices, as well as planning which tree species will fruit better with more sunshine.

“Growing things are good” isn’t a sufficiently coherent claim for a book. While the questions and problems that Andrew Peterson raises in The God of the Garden are thorny and complex, his ideas deserve greater development.

Simard concludes that all of the natural world is interconnected and her conclusion is particularly poignant as she points out that the hard-won insight of her decades of research is nothing more than a “scientific” stamp of approval on the wisdom of both ancient indigenous practices and 19th and early 20th century logging and harvesting practices.

The locust tree is a rare symbol of Christmas and Easter as one.

The presence of a mature orchard is a sign of the longevity of the farm and the temperance and patience of its farmers.

I have just planted two apple trees from what my local nursery calls their “Posterity Collection,” heritage varieties grafted onto a slower-growing but durable and...