An overview of learning to garden in a Nordic setting, along with a description of what grows when.

Remembering my mother at Christmas.

It started with the ants, and it ended with the swallows. The first time I remember looking at the garden and thinking, "Now it must be...

I haven't been at Bastubacka for a long time, some four weeks. That is the longest absence since we acquired the place last summer. It's...

I used to love watching Mister Roger's Neighborhood on TV as a kid. Sesame Street and The Electric Company were the hipper versions of...

As newcomers to the second home experience, there is definitely an excitement about returning to a place we left behind weeks or even...

Some days you wake up to the sound of a tractor in your garden. The weirdest thing about that is that you don't own a tractor. Who, then,...