Here’s a short film to cheer the mid-winter soul. I meant this as a Christmas greeting of sorts, but it’s a bit late, as usual. The sentiment remains the same though!
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[...] The trouble, for me, was translating fascinating gardening history which relied on seemingly long forgotten intensive methods, and intensive labor requirements to a coastal, island, Pacific Northwest garden and polytunnel, where horse manure–the fuel which drove the Parisian gardens–is fairly scarce. But blindly I pressed on. [...]