LINDA HOFFMAN
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2025
- May 9, 2025 A View from the Tractor Seat
- Apr 11, 2025 Dig
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2024
- Jan 7, 2024 Winter Wassail
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2022
- Dec 11, 2022 Keeping Time
- Jun 17, 2022 This Apple-Shaped Earth
- Jan 23, 2022 What is a Jizo?
- Jan 16, 2022 An Invite and Housekeeping Update
- Jan 1, 2022 The Year of the Frog: What Orchardists Do While Apple Trees are Chilling
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2021
- Oct 24, 2021 Figs
- Oct 3, 2021 The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir
- Aug 8, 2021 Red-Fleshed Apples
- Jul 25, 2021 When We Were Trees
- Jun 27, 2021 Castor Beans—Who Knew?
- Jun 13, 2021 Spring Training at a Zen Monastery
- May 4, 2021 Our Trees are in Bloom
- Apr 18, 2021 Hooray!
- Jan 24, 2021 Wassailing, virtually!
- Jan 1, 2021 Sitting
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2020
- Dec 21, 2020 Darkness to Light
- Nov 28, 2020 One Heart
- Sep 18, 2020 Juggling Flowers, Fruit, and Vegetables
- Aug 23, 2020 Refuge
- Aug 9, 2020 Bags of Fertilizer
- Aug 2, 2020 The Sermon of the Blue Heron
- Jul 26, 2020 What's the Buzz?
- Jul 19, 2020 Farm Moments
- Jul 12, 2020 Lost Wax
- Jul 5, 2020 Catalpa: The Hugging Tree
- Jun 28, 2020 Pedaling Peace
- Jun 21, 2020 See Change
- Jun 14, 2020 Lalla Unveiled
- Jun 7, 2020 Pond Alchemy
- May 31, 2020 The Birth of Fruit
- May 24, 2020 An Artist in the Orchard
- May 17, 2020 Walking the Land: Returning Home
- May 10, 2020 Stinging Nettles: Gifts from the Great Mother
- May 3, 2020 The Mystery of Swallow
- Apr 26, 2020 Aerial Bruststrokes
- Apr 19, 2020 Simple Pleasures
- Apr 12, 2020 Weeds and Other Gifts
- Apr 5, 2020 Remembering the Seeds
- Mar 29, 2020 Blow on the Embers
- Mar 22, 2020 Ripples
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2019
- Nov 16, 2019 Tibet Impressions
- Nov 9, 2019 Forest Tales
- Oct 13, 2019 The Gift
- Aug 4, 2019 The Season is Apples, Berries, and Grandfather Fire
- Jun 8, 2019 Pointers for a Writing Life
- May 12, 2019 Mothers of the Earth
- Apr 6, 2019 The Apple-Shaped Earth
- Mar 23, 2019 You Don’t Know What You Have Till It’s Gone
- Feb 23, 2019 Generations
- Feb 9, 2019 What Are We Doing to the Earth, John Chapman?
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2018
- Dec 31, 2018 Long Shadows
- Oct 6, 2018 A Pilgrimage to India
- Aug 18, 2018 Scrap Wrenn
- Aug 11, 2018 Off-the-Wall Comments from an Ignorant Farmer
- Jul 28, 2018 Creative Connect
- Jul 14, 2018 How is the Orchard?
- Jun 30, 2018 Which Way?
- Jun 16, 2018 Geese, Herons, Beavers, and the Baby Steps of a Lapsed Blogger
- Feb 24, 2018 Mama's Coupons — Good Forever
- Jan 27, 2018 January Ice
- Jan 13, 2018 The Muse
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2017
- Dec 30, 2017 A Dream for the New Year
- Dec 23, 2017 A New Year for Apples
- Dec 16, 2017 Intuition
- Nov 22, 2017 Thanksgiving OM
- Nov 4, 2017 East Fork Pottery
- Oct 28, 2017 Putting Down New Roots
- Oct 21, 2017 A is for Art
- Oct 14, 2017 Eve domesticus
- Oct 7, 2017 A String Workshop
- Sep 30, 2017 After Applepicking
- Sep 23, 2017 Two Bad Women and One Good Apple
- Sep 16, 2017 Plein Air Poetry
- Sep 9, 2017 Cutting Off a Leg
- Sep 2, 2017 The Changing Landscape
- Aug 26, 2017 All About Art
- Aug 19, 2017 My First Visit to the Farm
- Aug 12, 2017 The First Food
- Aug 5, 2017 A Teapot, a Woman, and maybe a Boat
- Jul 29, 2017 A Raspberry Dilemma
- Jul 22, 2017 Consider the Miracle
- Jul 15, 2017 Meeting Ekphrasis
- Jul 8, 2017 Ripening Fruit
- Jul 1, 2017 The Voice of The Caterpillar
- Jun 24, 2017 Goumi — An Unusual Fructus
- Jun 17, 2017 Concord, an American Bloomsbury
- Jun 10, 2017 The World Is Bonkers — Shall I Laugh or Cry?
- Jun 3, 2017 Bonkers, a Revolutionary Apple
- May 27, 2017 Guardians of the Swamp
- May 20, 2017 There are Mushrooms and There are Morels
- May 13, 2017 "What's in a Name?"
- May 6, 2017 Bloom Follows Pink: Orchard Pollination
- Apr 29, 2017 The Orchard Is at Pink
- Apr 22, 2017 Natural Farming — Part 2 (continuation from last Sunday's blog)
- Apr 15, 2017 Natural Farming — Part 1
- Apr 8, 2017 Boats, Figures, and Catching Fish
- Apr 1, 2017 A Man with a Mission: The Nuts and Bolts of Bronze Casting
- Mar 25, 2017 A Chalice of Spirit, Art, and Nature
- Mar 18, 2017 Hanami — Blossom Viewing
- Mar 11, 2017 Soil Redemption Song
- Mar 4, 2017 Food is Primary Care
- Feb 25, 2017 Pomme de Terre
- Feb 18, 2017 Organic Certification
- Feb 11, 2017 Tantalizing Fruit
- Feb 4, 2017 The Myths of History
- Jan 28, 2017 The Orchard in Winter
- Jan 21, 2017 The Hi-Line
- Jan 14, 2017 Artistic, Botanical, and Social Diversity
- Jan 7, 2017 Where is Eden?
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2016
- Dec 31, 2016 The Creative Heart
- Dec 24, 2016 A Christmas Tale
- Dec 17, 2016 Who are the Crones?
- Dec 10, 2016 The Olympic Bell (Part Two)
- Dec 3, 2016 Overheard in the Apple Orchard in Early December
- Nov 26, 2016 The Lessons of a Tortoise
- Nov 19, 2016 In the Studio
- Nov 12, 2016 Even in Darkness
- Nov 5, 2016 Southern Apples, an Elephant, Monkey, Rabbit, and Bird, Two Mango Trees and a Birthday
- Oct 29, 2016 The Tools of Art
- Oct 22, 2016 Labyrinths
- Oct 15, 2016 Repairing the Broken
- Oct 8, 2016 When You Are No More
- Oct 1, 2016 Creation Rain
- Sep 24, 2016 Breaking the Glass
- Sep 17, 2016 String Art
- Sep 10, 2016 Poetry and Photosynthesis: It's all in the Leaves
- Sep 3, 2016 In the Plenty of Time
- Aug 27, 2016 Witch Doctors
- Aug 20, 2016 Listen Coyote
- Aug 13, 2016 Milkweed in the Orchard
- Aug 6, 2016 Some People See a Turtle
- Jul 30, 2016 Arborshaping
- Jul 23, 2016 Joseph Wheelwright: Sculptor of Stones and Trees
- Jul 16, 2016 Asian Pears
- Jul 9, 2016 Gold Leaf, Grief, and the Creative Process
- Jul 2, 2016 The Olympic Bell (Part One)
- Jun 25, 2016 Around the Mulberry Bush
- Jun 18, 2016 Avoiding Apples
- Jun 11, 2016 Fructus
- Jun 4, 2016 Astonishing Apples
- May 28, 2016 Scare the Caterpillars
- May 21, 2016 Join the Club!
- May 14, 2016 The Graft
- May 7, 2016 Rooster, Rhubarb, Rue
- Apr 30, 2016 What do Dolphins and Nettles Have in Common?
- Apr 23, 2016 Art Prunings
- Apr 16, 2016 A Few of the First Arrivals
- Apr 9, 2016 Taste the Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture
- Apr 2, 2016 First Orchard Spray - March 22-24, 2016
- Mar 26, 2016 Hawkeye Apple
- Mar 19, 2016 Desiring the Almata Apple
- Mar 12, 2016 Ugly Fruit
- Mar 5, 2016 Winter Tracks
- Feb 27, 2016 Splash
- Feb 20, 2016 Pruning
- Feb 13, 2016 Orchard Ruminants
- Feb 6, 2016 A Gathering of Seeds
- Jan 30, 2016 Orchard Dragons
- Jan 23, 2016 Tree Rings
- Jan 17, 2016 The Fallen Tree
- Jan 7, 2016 Wassailing the Apple Trees
- Jan 1, 2016 The New Year