When we’re healing from injury, we’re often told that the muscles need stretching. Indeed, stretching can be incredibly therapeutic but it must be approached cautiously, especially if there’s been an injury. I wrote sometime ago about a lower back injury I was dealing with after plunging into the Spring gardening. The process of recovery was [...]

Here it is, the beginning of Spring and those of us gardeners in Corvallis, blessed with this long growing season, are already getting our hands in the dirt.  More sunny days, light until 7 p.m. and perennials and winter crops beginning to show there lovely green gets us going.  It’s a challenge to pace ourselves [...]