We were walking on the residential side of Capitol Hill in Seattle, catching up on a friendship that dates back to college years and includes a cross-country couch surfing and camping journey that took Amanda …
Double Red Sweet Corn
This sweet corn is really, truly red down to the flowers, tassels and stalk, and its so delicious that it’s hard to harvest without just sitting down for a feast right in the garden. But …
Art as always
My paintings and other artwork are chronicled in detail at www.monicabretherton.com, but here is the latest public art piece – 2 steel and acrylic bears designed by me and installed at the entrance to the …
Seedy Heirlooms
Learn more about the farm-grown heirloom seeds I offer, from Sweetmeat Squash, the tasty celadon beauties developed for the Pacific Northwest, Double Red Sweet Corn, a blend of old and new by a pioneer of …
Sequoialand
Sequoialand exists everywhere that members of the redwood family grow. Wherever they grow in time and space, that is. Sequoia species coexisted with dinosaurs and giant insects, and are found as fossils or as petrified …