Country Sampler

A Chore NO MORE

In her youth, Angie Grayson-Davis huffed and puffed about picking raspberries and beans and pulling weeds on her late grandfather’s farm and in her mother’s vegetable garden. However, those once-dreaded childhood chores were but a bellwether for a passion for gardening that developed in her adult years. In fact, when she and her husband, Dan Davis, toured the Rochester, Washington, house that would become their home in 2016, it was the large garden spanning the property that weighed heavily in their

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