Showing posts with label introduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label introduction. Show all posts
Monday, February 26, 2007
About Life In Sugar Hollow
Life in Sugar Hollow is a garden blog about my adventures in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Nifty garden and garden-inspired product reviews; local gardening happenings; horticulture, permaculture and organic gardening with a lighter tone; thoughts on native plants; container, vegetable and herb gardening; fun do-it-yourself projects; recipes; and chronicles of my own garden experiments.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Peeking Out From Behind The Shrubbery
Why, Oh, Why a Blog About Gardening?
My husband was absolutely intrigued when I showed him the first attempt at my blog. Knowing me to be a very private person, he wondered where this all came from . . .
Well . . . gardening can be a very solitary endeavor. And when you live in a hollow in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, even more so. Jus' me scratching away at the dirt, muttering to myself at my guffaws, and listening to the echoes of my victory yelps when something goes/grows well. A sense of community and sharing of ideas keeps me going - therefore, I blog.
Oh, yes, and I'm originally from right outside Manhattan and spent my first ten years out of college in Manhattan and Long Island. So, the experience of moving to five acres has been humbling and humiliating on levels I never could have imagined as a New Yorker. I have found, that this is a huge part of the whole adventure. My carefully cultivated skills from office jobs and the indulgent laziness of apartment living don't cut it. There's no take-out, no mass transit, no crowds - just the woefully inept me and the sound of my panicked gulps as a I learn a new skill.
So far, it has run the gamut from my learning how to operate a tractor (*many* gulps accompanied by dry mouth and a racing heart) to building raised vegetables beds to buying my first, very own 4 X 4 truck.
The disclaimer here (in case you haven't picked up on this point already) is that I am no expert. Just someone who daydreamed about this life while I sat in my fancy office in NYC . . . and actively sought it out.
I do enjoy researching and reading as much as possible - so I'm hoping I can chronicle and share what I have learned about gardening in the Albemarle/Charlottesville area (Zone 7 - for you sticklers for detail). LOTS of experiments, lots of do-it-yourself projects, with a nod to the use of recycled materials, as well as incorporating the world of organic gardening practices and permaculture into our life (I'll try to keep that last bit more fun than preachy . . . ).
My husband was absolutely intrigued when I showed him the first attempt at my blog. Knowing me to be a very private person, he wondered where this all came from . . .
Well . . . gardening can be a very solitary endeavor. And when you live in a hollow in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, even more so. Jus' me scratching away at the dirt, muttering to myself at my guffaws, and listening to the echoes of my victory yelps when something goes/grows well. A sense of community and sharing of ideas keeps me going - therefore, I blog.
Oh, yes, and I'm originally from right outside Manhattan and spent my first ten years out of college in Manhattan and Long Island. So, the experience of moving to five acres has been humbling and humiliating on levels I never could have imagined as a New Yorker. I have found, that this is a huge part of the whole adventure. My carefully cultivated skills from office jobs and the indulgent laziness of apartment living don't cut it. There's no take-out, no mass transit, no crowds - just the woefully inept me and the sound of my panicked gulps as a I learn a new skill.
So far, it has run the gamut from my learning how to operate a tractor (*many* gulps accompanied by dry mouth and a racing heart) to building raised vegetables beds to buying my first, very own 4 X 4 truck.
The disclaimer here (in case you haven't picked up on this point already) is that I am no expert. Just someone who daydreamed about this life while I sat in my fancy office in NYC . . . and actively sought it out.
I do enjoy researching and reading as much as possible - so I'm hoping I can chronicle and share what I have learned about gardening in the Albemarle/Charlottesville area (Zone 7 - for you sticklers for detail). LOTS of experiments, lots of do-it-yourself projects, with a nod to the use of recycled materials, as well as incorporating the world of organic gardening practices and permaculture into our life (I'll try to keep that last bit more fun than preachy . . . ).
Onward!
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