Fall is always full of thoughts of garlic.  After all, following the mind-numbing pace of spring and summer planting, fall can bring an unnerving absence of things to plant, so to what remains, the mind clings like a shipwrecked sailor to flotsam, and sometimes too tightly at that.  It’s typical for me to reach November having […]

Here’s a tool that saves me time.  In fact it makes dealing with post-harvest crop residue a breeze.  For want of an official name, I call it the stainless steel, flexi-knife. Given that we grow our greens nice and thick at the Rot, it’s also a given that we get a nice mat of stemmy […]

It is fall, and there are a lot of things to put into the compost bin.  At my school garden a hard frost hit two nights ago, and while it made parsley leaves stand out in exquisite relief…       it also turned the dahlias to mush (but they were oh, so beautiful in […]