Making Maple Syrup – a hard but rewarding activity
On a Sunday morning in late winter, neighbors, friends, and three generations of Mattesons gather in the kitchen chatting about the new sap house and
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You are building a house but not ready to invest in landscape. Here is what you should do
My best friend was building her dream house and didn’t have the funds or the bandwidth to deal with the landscape. She asked me for
What is an experiential landscape?
Landscape design and aesthetics should work to enhance a particular experience. To achieve this, I focus on two aspects of landscape: sensory engagement and eventfulness.
Building the Lake House Landscape
To know long, slow days lakeside, is to know deep peace. Even the boisterous laughter and splashing of friends is absorbed out into the quiet
Good planting practices protect for decades
The recent windstorm blew down this 2′ diameter maple that was probably planted only 10-15 years before. This tree is on my jogging route and
To Live Well, Design for Events, Big and Small
“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all” Some ideas stay with you. This one, expressed by