February in the Brooks Estate Garden
Brooks’ gardener, Shannon Mayhew gives an update on the Brooks Estate Garden in February.
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January in the Brooks Garden
“Something essential happens in a vegetable garden. It’s a place where if you can’t say ‘I love you’ out loud, you can say it in seeds. And the land will reciprocate in beans.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants Hope is in a seed. As we…
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December in the Brooks Garden
“To live in this worldYou must be ableTo do three things:To love what is mortalTo hold itAgainst your bones knowing your own life depends on itAnd, when the time comes to let it goTo let it go.” -Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers As these cool and foggy days settle into the garden I…
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November in the Brooks Garden
“You ought not to grow garlic unless you are willing to let it make you as patient as it needs for its purposes” – Stanley Crawford, A Garlic Testament After the strenuous work of summer, the slower pace of fall announces itself with a sigh of relief from gardeners as we take a pause from…
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October in the Brooks Estate Garden
“Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land.” -Aldo Leopold The season of fall is a time of reflection for me as the garden pulls inward preparing for winter and rest. As I work in the garden thoughts of our own relations to land come to mind with the realization of its increasingly…
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