Celebrating 25 years of Garden Gate columns
It was a cool day in March when I donned a warm jacket and walked up Ole Johnson Street to the Kodiak Daily Mirror office for my appointment with then-publisher Nancy Freeman. We sat in the conference room and talked about my new idea, a weekly gardening column for the newspaper. And I would write it. We talked about the coming spring: daffodils that would soon be blooming, how to grow seedlings under lights, sparrows that dig up pea seed, making compost ... all manner of garden topics. Including earthworms. Even though I was accustomed to pitching ideas to editors, having freelanced for ...