A Garden Tale

By JudithKlinger | June 5, 2009 |

 For those faithful readers, you know that we share our orto with our friends from Portland, its in the heart of town so everyone feels free to comment on our efforts and its not really our orto, its Signor Bruski's orto and he just lets us use it. For anyone else just tuning in, well,…

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Orto Report

By JudithKlinger | April 28, 2009 |

 It took us almost a week to get over to inspect ‘our’ orto. I think we were simply afraid to look. In case you don’t know or remember the whole saga of how we wound up as serfs working a garden in the center of our medieval village: click here. This year, our first order…

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Why garden?

By JudithKlinger | March 4, 2009 |

Everyone loves a garden, right? My father had a huge garden and after dinner we would walk out en masse for ‘adoration’ of all things leafy green and edible. Alice Waters created an empire out of gardening. The English have garden competitions. Italians are not ‘real’ Italians without some sort of garden or orto. I…

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