Buddhas for Judith

Before I met Ken I had a small house in St Paul.  I had many flowers and wanted a buddha statue.  I saved my pennies and when I returned to the garden center the buddha was gone.  Each time there or any garden center I looked for a buddha.  No buddhas.   I had told Ken this story and he listened each time and nodded.  Once when we were doing a pottery show in the …

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Onion Skins

I weave rag rugs.  At one point I saved dry onion skins to dye some dull rags.  I set them in brown paper bags in the old kiln shed. Ken created glazes from ashes – he used wood ash form apple trees, maple ash, and he also used crop sources like the husks from dry beans or corn stalks.       When Ken went to clean the old kiln shed he found the bags …

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Harvest Newsletter

Greetings from the Garden!  This CSA box has sprouts, onions, garlic, beets, carrots, black radishes, Kohlrabi, celery root, and Cherokee Trail of Tears Dry beans.     Field Notes.  We are at the midpoint between solstice and equinox.  These mid points are where the drama happens – Solstices and equinoxes mark a conclusion of lengthening days or lengthening nights.    Most religions and folklore have names for these points: St Brigid, St Blaise, or Candlemas …

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