This last weekend I ordered the seeds for the vegetables I’ll be cultivating in the garden this year. Last year, with a little less than 1500 square feet of garden (not counting the vineyard), we harvested 200 pounds of winter squash and several gallons of tomatoes and beans (wax, green, and horto, the latter harvested [...]
Introit
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift, but generosity and indifference to money; not caution but courage and contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love for truth; not tact but love for one's neighbors and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.



