Contents In Every Issue


Editor’s Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Notes (on Our First Issue). . . . . . . . . . . 7 Growing Locally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Top Dressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72


Creative Nonfiction Naked Tomatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9


The Garden Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Rare Breed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Pulsatilla Vulgaris - Pasque Flower . . . . . 27 Swarm Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Tuscan Roots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52


Poetry


The Garden of Enormous Language . . . 20 Winter Dream with Garden. . . . . . . . 26 March Equinox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Wild with the Weeds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50


Art


Horefrost Fence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Snowflakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Insecta 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48


Comics & Such


Oddly Familiar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Name that Sprout! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 In the Produce Aisle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32


Interview Garden Song: Christa DeCicco of Christobel and the Jons . . . . . . . . . . . 36


Biography


George Washington Carver: Grandfather of Sustainability. . . . . . . 56


Columns Slow Ride: Creating Simplicity. . . . . . . . . . 8 Crunchy Betty: The Honey Challenge , . . .18 Sex in the Garden: Winter’s Heart . . . . . 39 Creature Feature: Consider the Beetle . . . 48 Leafing Through (Reviews) . . . . . . . . . . 68


Front cover art by Zora and Sandra Knauf. Our cover model is the incomparable Catie Szabo.


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