Michigan Garden Muse

“The misunderstanding I have with Nature over my perennial border,” writes gardener Sara Stein, “I think it is a flower garden. She thinks i...

In a garden or greenhouse, on a windowsill or between patio pavers, succulents hold an irresistible attraction. They draw us to them, stop u...

Now you're cooking with grease!, as my grandma used to say when something or someone got on the right track. On several recent days, th...

Having written of the perils of toxins in common garden plants a couple weeks ago, it's only fair and balanced to take another meander d...

Spring arrives later and proceeds down the garden, forest and farm-field aisles with more gradual, cautious steps in northern Michigan than ...

Appearances can be dangerously deceptive in the garden. Some of the most delicate, pretty little things harbor substances that can easily fe...

Pretty much everyone stopping in the corner EZ Mart for coffee, the village post office for mail, the IGA grocery, agrees it's high time...

How cheering it is, after the big meltdown of a 50-degree day mid-week, to see the garden re-emerge and poke its head out of the disappearin...

Maybe to an observer it looks like a lovely dalliance to collect baskets of fat, ripe tomatoes or snip bouquets of pastel blushing roses, bu...

In the early 1950s, a young German biodynamic farmer/researcher named Maria Thun decided to investigate the legendary belief present in many...

The best, most distinct, most numerous memories of childhood often involve gardens, trees, waterscapes and other natural world phenomena. Fr...

As sub-freezing temperatures lay their cold paws across the landscape and veils of windborne snow course endlessly up hill and down dale, ...