aMYLK Lifestyle & News — Gardening

There is nothing that I enjoy more than sitting in the garden on a warm summer day nestled amidst trellised green beans and towering corn with a good book. I grew up with privilege and while I am aware of that now, as a small child I had no idea that I was living in the idyllic wonderland of my parents' creation. 

My childhood home sat on a little over an acre in the Portland hills. Minutes from downtown, it might have been a world away. We were enclosed on three sides by forest and a sea of flowers, fruit and...