How to Build a Better Berry Basket (or Bucket)
A bountiful morning when you have the right tools. Berry (and cherry) picking is serious business; you pick, eat a few, then try to get them in the bucket or basket without spilling your handful from...
View ArticleHow to Make Ketchup & Blue Ribbon Redemption
As good as it gets: homemade ketchup from homegrown tomatoes via some lessons learned. My culinary redemption is complete. As some of you may recall, my last attempt to make ketchup did not end so...
View ArticleHow to Prune Raspberries: Instructions, Photos, and a Video
Fallgold raspberry: a sachet of sweet and delectable perfume. Behold, the raspberry, the gold standard by which I judge other berries whether planted in my garden or in my mouth. As easy as this cane...
View ArticleHow to Make a Better Fruit Fly Trap
Behold, a fruit fly trap that really works and doesn’t require a mechanical engineering degree. With my countertops buckling under the weight of ripe produce, the fruit flies have taken noticed and...
View ArticleHow to Make a Garden Fountain
My fountain built in 2005, algae aged and still running. Garden Fountain: An Earthly Delight What’s my sign? (I thought you’d never ask.) As a card-carrying, water-bearing Aquarian, my home is not a...
View ArticleBehold the Broadfork: Shake, Shimmy and Till!
There are gardening tools, and then, there are gardening tools. The Meadow Creature broadfork is definitely the latter, a precision-built tool made right here on Vashon Island. Bob Powell is the Meadow...
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