The Sweet Briar Community Garden

If you haven’t done so yet, check out the community strawberry bed between the pavilion and the corn.  It has been terraced (thanks to Susan Leonard for the RR ties!) and largely cleared of wiregrass — with one exception:  the huge area of grass adjacent to the stone steps
A couple of us put in some [...]

Hello All,
Well, for better or worse, Alix gave me permission to post on the SBCGBLOG, so I thought I would do a brain dump on y’all starting with my experience mowing inside the garden with the renewed ‘Jaffe 2002′ riding mower last week.  I spent a couple hundred dollars and several days time tearing down [...]

Posted by Jane:
Working late at night on a(nother) paper, I found this poem that seems timely.  I would put it on a new post, but can’t figure out how to start one.  This is from A.R. Ammons’ “Four Motions for the Pea Vines”:
the rhythm is
  diffusion and concentration:
in and out:
       expansion and
contraction: the unfolding,
  furling:…
       the rhythm is
       out and 
       in,
       diffusion [...]

A message from Tim:
The main water line is closed off so that I can replace hardware for line extension to the area surrounding Katia’s plot. Please do not use; should be connected by tomorrow or Wed. at latest. We should have some rain today and tomorrow, so plants you just put out should [...]