Sustainable Gardening with Nature by Sue Robishaw

        Welcome to the ManyTracks gardening page. My garden world is ever-changing and is as much fun now as it was when I started over thirty years ago. I am always a new gardener whenever I step into that world. A long-time organic gardener, I enjoy the cooperative, and preferably simple, approach to growing food. Every year is a new adventure.
        The seeds I plant are open-pollinated and usually are varieties that have earned their spot in the line-up over decades and generations before me. Those I don't grow myself, I buy from independent seed companies specializing in open-pollinated varieties. Like many a gardener, I enjoy sharing. Over the years I've written many articles (mainly for "Countryside" magazine), given numerous presentations, and talked with an enjoyably large array of gardeners. This page is an extension of that sharing. I invite you to browse my gardening world as I have browsed so many others'.
        If you want to print any of these words, it would be nice if you would do so on scrap or 100% recycled paper. The forests are worth it, and so are we. Should you want to use a small portion of these articles to quote in a publication of your own, just give proper credit and let me know where it is used. Anything more than that, contact me. Thanks.

Check out the Homesteading page for more articles on various homestead topics.

Gardening Through the Years
A new adventure every year -- some things worked, some didn't, and always things to learn.

From spring of 1993 through winter of 1996 I published a small newsletter called "Northern Seeds News". Topics ranged from seed saving to food dryers, from potato blight to gardens of the past. Here are some of those issues.

#11 - Late Fall 1995: Farewell; Seed Sources; 1774 Schedule

#10 - Fall 1995: Ideas & Change; Bean Mutants; Potato Blight; Weeds; White Oak

# 9 - Summer 1995: Earth Pace; Greenhouse; Pumpkin & Vinegar; Drying Apples

# 8 - Spring 1995: Thoughts & Weather; Solar Food Dryer; Potatoes

# 7 - Winter 1995: Dreaming; Germination Test; Bean Trial

# 6 - Fall 1994: Learning; Corn; Alternative Seed Companies; Book Review

# 5 - Summer 1994: Challenges; Tomato Seed; Garlic; Seed Ideas; Corn Food

# 4 - Spring 1994: By Hand; Root Crops; From the Past; Book Review

# 3 - Winter 1994: Experiments; Cold Frames; Squash; Biotomato; Book Review

# 2 - Fall 1993: NSN; Wet Season; Beans & Grains; Seed Company Highlight

# 1 - Spring 1993: Beginning; Seed Saving; SSE; Lettuce; Broccoli

"It's a sign of wisdom that seeds don't squander their energy all at once, instead calmly waiting until the time is right. Seeds aren't stupid." --Midas Dekkers, "The Way of All Flesh" in "Romance of Ruins"