The Beginning
THE BEGINNING – THE GARDENFor many of us there are special beginningsBeginnings that change our life.I was three and a half years old when I moved to New Mexico. My parents rented a small adobe house in the Rio Grande valley. That summer mother and Harcova created a garden. Harcova was the hired hand of the woman that owned our house. His native tongue was Spanish. He couldn’t speak English and was almost deaf. But somehow mom and he communicated. It was a peculiar sight – waving arms, loud voices in different languages, points and gestures. What bonded them together was their love of growing food, every aspect; procuring seeds, preparing the soil, designing the garden layout, planting at just […]