Perhaps the real meaning of the 1914 Christmas Truce is the understanding that whatever our differences are, there is an underlying...
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The Homestead Gardener: Growth Mindsets and Garden Success
As the growing season and the calendar year both approach their end, the end -credits rolling on the former some weeks before the latter,...
From the Editor
Memories and Traditions – When we asked our contributors to share a favorite recipe with our readers, I was excited to see what...
Setting the Table
Aubergine in Canandaigua NY By D.E. Bentley – Life is about connections, and there is no better place to connect than around the...
Obituary-Leona J. Bentley
Leona June (Gardner) Bentley Leona June (Gardner) Bentley Leona J. Bentley, 83, of Canandaigua, NY, passed away peacefully on November 3,...
The Homestead Gardener..on harvesting…and dreaming
by Derrick Gentry – “What is paradise, but a garden … full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.”...
Submissions~Just Des(s)erts!
Now accepting submissions ~ short and sweet! Deadline Extended to December 10, 2019 at midnight.
Walpurgisnacht
An Essay and poem by Scott Williams Scott W. Williams ~ SUNY at Buffalo Professor Emeritus Dr. Scott W. Williams is a poet and...
Huntress
by C. Damon – It started with trees. From a very young age I climbed trees, all by myself, almost daily. On our farm there is a...
Poetry by Stephen Lewandowski
Stephen S. Lewandowski ~Stephen Lewandowski was born in Canandaigua, NY in 1947. When his ethnobotanist parents were killed in a...