Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene

With Hurricane Irene bearing down on NYC we assumed we would be better off on higher ground, tucked away in the foothills. We were safe, but definitely not better off. While our friends in the city were back at work…

The Butterfly Garden

The Butterfly Garden

We’ve been fortunate enough that the previous owners loved the house, and loved gardening. They surrounded the entire home in a moat of flora, many of the flowers planted to attract butterflys and hummingbirds. This spring we trimmed and mulched…

The Harvest

The Harvest

Our garden is the vegetable version of Noah’s ark, we basically have two of everything. This year instead of going for a big crop of anything we planted a wide variety of plants to see what would do well, so…