Monthly Archives: April 2011

If I haven’t posted in the past week it’s not because I wasn’t out in the garden — in fact, it’s been a crazy week, preparing for a big day tomorrow all along the Emerald Necklace, the historic parks system … Continue reading →

I was reading Ashlee Fairey’s article in the latest Courant about EarthFest on the Esplanade. “It is detrimental” to the park, said Sylvia Salas, executive director of the Esplanade Association. The article goes on: The weight of thousands of people on … Continue reading →

People with disabilities are often excluded from community gardening because most community gardens lack accessible facilities.  Increasingly, however, community gardens in Boston are looking for ways to provide access to the whole community.  The challenges are pretty formidable, though, as … Continue reading →

Sarah Hutt from the Berkeley Community Gardens was kind enough to show me around these already busy intensive gardens at the crossroads of the South End and China Town yesterday.  Urban gardeners are always looking for inspiration, especially when it … Continue reading →

Forget what T.S. Eliot famously said about April.  He was obviously not a gardener.  Karel Čapek was, and his observation — “April, that is the right and blessed month for the gardener” — is closer to the truth. Let Lovers … Continue reading →

If my father hadn’t died in April I doubt I’d be gardening today. I had worked in the orchards of New Hampshire for years in my youth, and had even moved up to foreman my last couple of harvests at … Continue reading →