Beautiful Bozeman and preparing for winter

Even though I’ve been freelance writing for over a decade, I still become giddy when my articles come out in the newspaper or magazines. Imagine my delight when I received my Dec/Jan issue of Organic Gardening magazine, which included my article on the very Montanan town of Bozeman. We had a great time visiting Bozeman this summer (despite [...]

Digging deep for an article

I spent a couple of weeks in Ohio this fall to spend time with my family, and to do a considerable amount of research in my family’s history for an article I’m writing. One reason I love my vocation is it’s a very hands-on profession. Last year when I wrote a piece on a solar [...]

Thinking of spring

One of the challenges of being a garden writer is having to write ahead of the season. Writing summer stories when everything is white with the cozy-factor of a walk-in freezer is therapy for me, but it’s tough when I’m wrapping up the garden to think about planting in the spring. In reality, though, this is [...]

Shifting gears with the season

I’ve come to realize there really is no slow season anymore. I know a lot of people look forward to autumn because garden chores and life in general starts to moderate. Not here. I don’t know how I’m going to freeze and can everything that’s ripening. I’m even freezing berries to turn into jams and [...]

No matter how long I’ve been writing, I’m always delighted when I hit that “send” button. I just finished my final story for College 101 on how to choose a major. It was an eye opener. With the economy the way it’s going, I think less students can afford the time to find themselves in [...]

Where are the dog days of summer?

This is supposed to be the time of year when we kick back and enjoy the bounty of the season. Yeah, right. Beans wait for no one. They’re coming on strong, as well as broccoli, cabbage and greens galore. The tomatoes tower above my head, and the grafted Brandywine/Maxifort is a gigantic success. We started [...]

Weeding, watering and snakes

Now that the summer planting is finally done, and the late season round hasn’t started in anticipation of fall harvests, it’s time to weed, water and enjoy the gardens. I’m one of those crazies who actually likes weeding, particularly when it’s in my home garden and everything pulls up nicely. On the other hand, using the hoe in [...]

The start of summer?

The official first day of summer is just days away, but truthfully, it doesn’t feel as if spring has really begun. Most of the planting is finally finished, although it sounds like there might be a couple of open plots at the University of Great Falls community garden. We’ll see if the gardeners come through. [...]

Knee deep in the gardening program

  It’s the middle of May and I don’t have my entire garden – sans corn – planted. The world very well might be coming to an end on May 21. Ha! Slowly, but surely, I’m putting plants in the garden, and covering them immediately to prevent damage from the likely frost or freeze. I [...]

Doing the happy dance

It’s been three weeks of a full out run when it comes to assignments, but I’m doing the happy dance because I’m caught up for the moment. Last Friday, I had 7 articles due byThursday. Honestly, I didn’t know how I was going to manage them in time since several were somewhat complicated. (Gardening I can do in my [...]

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