Notes From Zone 4: Garden Blog Pioneer Found

by Kathy Purdy on February 11, 2007 · 3 comments

In my series on Garden Blog Pioneers, I reported in the final part that Notes From Zone 4 was MIA. Well, they’re back.

If you ever had doubts that a cold climate garden could look good, take one look at their banner image and doubt no more. Then, appetite whetted, browse through their gallery. A sight for snow-blinded eyes.

As noted in their About section and other places on the site, they are very involved in raising animals now, and the garden takes a back seat. But of course, even in the animal department, they don’t do things halfway. I had never heard of Icelandic sheep, and wasn’t aware that any sheep breed could live on the kind of land that people routinely raise goats on. Consider me educated.

Welcome, back, Lisa and Frank. I’m looking forward to a very interesting read.

I don't mean to complain about my own garden. It serves me and satisfies me quite well, except at the moments when I get into despair over it: very frequent moments, when I long to have some other sort of garden, quite different; a garden in Spain, a garden in Italy, a garden in Provence, a garden in Scotland.

Vita Sackville-West

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1 John February 28, 2007 at 12:42 pm: To the hard working folks at Mack Hill Farm, Nice to see you back, Good luck with the new chicken coop, it looks awsome.

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2 Jenn February 11, 2007 at 3:00 pm: Good to see them back again!

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3 Lisa February 11, 2007 at 1:14 pm: Hi there. It’s great to be back. I’ve got a garden that’s been neglected for a whole year to get back in shape, and to be honest, I’m looking forward to it tremendously. My archives are going to be a great help. “What’s that?!”

(I am in heaven thinking of the fabulous compost I will have with all my sheep bedding!)

I can’t wait to start my window boxes under lights again this year.

Yay! I love being back.

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