Tag: backyard stewardship

Finding Stewardship

Puddock Hill Journal – Entry #3: My first pond teaches me. My experience with environmental stewardship began when we were living in Bedford Hills, New York, in Westchester County back in the nineties. At the beginning of that decade, we bought our first property outside the city: ten acres of lawn, fields and woods; an […]

The Steward’s Anticipation

Puddock Hill Journal – Entry #2: Pay no attention to those mating toads. We just experienced two summery warm days here in the Brandywine Valley, but while the grass has greened and early spring ephemerals have begun showing off, I’m mostly still looking at a landscape of browns. Anticipation is the gardener’s dominant emotion this […]