My Wild Gardens, “Oh the place that I’m from is the place that I won,             It’s the joy of my heart, it is my own.         It took many a year but I’m finally here…          With a hey and a hoe to the field I go.” ~ from Song of a Homesteader…

Gardening for Wildlife Christine Schoene Maccabee On just one occasion, I had the pleasure of witnessing the profound beauty of hundreds of Monarch butterflies on their migratory path to Mexico. It was the first September of my new life here in the Catoctins, and my unmowed fields were bursting with flowering goldenrod. The goldenrod, being…