Lake Highlands Community Garden Archives

A Morning In May In The Garden

I’ve never really had a garden before. It has been the missing connection to my knowledge of food…what grows, what dies, what fights to live and what just gives up. It is an interesting observation and humbling to contemplate how trying it must have been to feed your family from the land. How you probably [Read More]

Lake Highlands Garden Plot-Much Better

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Amazing what time and effort produce!Those are ribs for a hoop house…in case we have a Spring ice storm! A big thanks to Dr. Novle Rogers for the tip to use the three-quarter-inch PVC for the base. No nails or screws needed. Totally portable for use year-after-year! When we first took the plot it was [Read More]

Lake Highlands Garden Plot-Ready to Go

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Those really are my Farm/Garden gloves! They are well broken in from years of trying to improve our East Texas farm and the hand-planting of thousands of trees…yes, I said thousands of trees! Days of walking the farm and hand planting little seedlings in just the right place. Now for planting in the garden plot. [Read More]

Phebe Phillips is best known for whimsical plush toys that filled the shelves of Neiman Marcus, FAO, and many fine retailers for 25-years. Today, she creates The Literary Catcast Podcast—dedicated to the preservation of vintage books and writings with cats as main characters, bringing them into the modern awareness of a podcast. She writes poetry and short essays for publication in journals. She has two upcoming books, Sleeping With Louie—a daughter’s soul journey as an only child of a mother with Borderline Personality Disorder, who was also an only child, and Upper East Side of The Pines—growing up in East Texas during the sweetness of the 1960s. She is married to Mac. So far, they have seven cats! For now, they live in Dallas, Texas until they move deep into the East Texas piney woods in 2022.