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• About | 6512 and growing

  :: September gorgeousness under Sheep Mountain:: 6512 and growing is the story of growing a family (plus 7 chickens, thousands of honeybees, a large garden and a small orchard, while butchering an …

• this very simple formula of life | 6512 and growing

  Right now, what I really want to tell you is that six pine grosbeaks have been visiting our crab apple daily. They’re new to our yard and each time they show up—earnest beaks clipping at red berrie…

• Everlasting Salad | 6512 and growing

  Arugula from the cold frames, planted last October. We’re eating through the magical forest of arugula: hack away at an armful and watch it reinvent itself while you sleep, like Madonna. (Con…

• gorging on the offerings of right now | 6512 and growing

  I am measuring the passing of time in birds and backyard fruit. It’s all happening on a micro-scale. Time shuttles from the season of grosbeaks messily eviscerating chokecherries in search of…

• Spoiler Alert | 6512 and growing

  1. I’m in the garden, taking a self-guided tour with coffee, when Col wakes up. “Come out and see the garden!” I call to him like he’s just arrived in the country. He’…

• the essentials | 6512 and growing

  Dearest dear ones, Last night as we all sat down to dinner Rose said, “we’ve been eating so well since the Coronavirus.” Dan and I looked around at the latest iteration of deer sausage, bulk-bin gr…