From most accounts, the Pilgrims weren’t exactly savvy gardeners when they arrived in the New World.  The Native Peoples had to teach them about cultivating corn, pumpkins, squash, and beans in a climate very different from England’s, or they might have starved while walking around in those funky shoes and weird hats. But at least the Pilgrims got one thing right. After [...]

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Thanksgiving is almost here.  Are you panicking yet? Suddenly I’m slamming into a boatload of things I meant to do before the holiday.   I was going to polish the furniture with the good paste wax; clean the windows; iron my best tablecloth; wash the pretty glasses that never get used until company comes, and….well, you get the [...]

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