A Gift from Ken

 I was a member of the zen center in the Twin Cities when I met Ken.  I knew of no zen centers near Turtle Lake, but I came with my Buddha,  incense, and gong; I put them on an old trunk my parents had given me when I went to college.  Ken decided he could do better than a trunk.     He took a slab and cut three holes.  He inserted and pegged the …

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Jammin’

What does one do when winter returns on March 30th?  Make jam, of course!  I will be selling jam here at Keppers during the Earth Arts show Saturday, May 5th and Sunday, May 6th.  Here are the raspberry – blackberry on the left and black currant on the right.  I have also made strawberry, ripe bell pepper, and organic peach.  Other than the peaches I got in Viroqua last summer, the jams are made from …

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Potting Soil

Few people knew which tasks Ken did and which I did.  We formed a good team, and I guess to many people the pieces were seamless.  Ken did the planting.  He made the potting soil in fall, brought in enough to fill four or five fifty gallon plastic barrels, made the soil blocks, planted, watered and transplanted. In Ken’s absence I found empty barrels – he hadn’t felt good enough to make the potting soil.  …

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