TARA DILLARD

At the front end of designing your garden there's a common halting point.  Language.  No words to describe the form, function, style, fl...

Power off, generator on.  Irma is here, middle rural Georgia.  Since last Thursday huge amounts of Florida traffic heading north along our c...

Chickens arrived in my life, 5 birthdays ago.  Eight heirloom girls.  Green, blue, white, & brown eggs. . Before their 1st month of li...

Before chickens, pic, below, would make me think, What a fruit loop, a simpleton. . After having chickens, I see the pic, below, and know...

Only yesterday, did I decide exactly where to build the Chicken Coop.  Chics are in temporary quarters since we moved in a year ago. . It&...

Notice the small evergreen hedging, below, along the gravel?  Thought low hedging was done as a garden design element, in the beginning, as ...

Why pics in my garden are not perfect, but better.  It's more important for you to see, 'real'.  Why?  You must be able to walk...

Beloved accuses me of being too wildly appreciative of the simplest elements of life.  Therein lies my wealth, is my response. . Since the...

Last Wednesday, a massacre in my chicken coop.  Neighbor's dogs already drawing blood, and death, by the time I arrived. . DNA ta...

Cloudy, cold, one of the coldest days, so far, this year, yesterday, and at a jobsite in the windiest county of the state. . A thou...

A client, late 40's, lived in a gated community of very-nice-homes, had a lake house too, and traveled the globe for pleasure. . He...

Home for shelter, pastures for livestock, hedgerows/ornamentals for pollinators, walled gardens for fruit/vegetables, aesthetics for spir...