WRITING
ARTICLES
For 15 years, I wrote for the magazine, Berkshire HomeStyle, based in Columbia County, NY serving the tri-state area. As their garden editor, I included monthly columns: Dig In and To Do in the Garden. In my earlier career, I wrote art reviews for the Berkshire Eagle.
More recently, my focus has been on community issues, the environment, and farming for The Berkshire Edge; Berkshire Food + Travel. In Mexico where I live part -time, I've written for Aténcion, a weekly paper in San Miguel de Allende, about local water issues, street art, and El Charco del Ingenio, a botanical garden.
As a freelance writer, I contributed to national magazines such as Horticulture and The Huffington Post on the flourishing of street art in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
FREELANCE WRITING: 1985 - 2016
Horticulture Magazine; The Berkshire Eagle; The Women’s Times; The Berkshire Edge; The Huffington Post, Aténcion.
GARDEN EDITOR AND WRITER:
1999- 2014
Berkshire HomeStyle
CONTRIBUTING WRITER 2016 - 2017
Berkshire Food + Travel: FLORA
WRITING AWARDS
2007 Garden Writers Association Bronze Award of Achievement for
Lessons from Sissinghurst
2005 Garden Writers Association Silver Award of Achievement for
Edith Wharton: An Encounter with the Berkshires
For years, my photographs illustrated my writing; today, to a certain extent, it is the reverse.
Still for my blog, called Journal, I seek to offer some background information, vignettes and stories related to my photographs.
BOOKS
Traveling a year abroad with my husband, David Lippman and our children, inspired me to publish the book, NOMADS FIVE, A Family Adventure around the World, a collage of writings, photographs as well as illustrations from our daughters, Alexandra and Nadia. (Sadly, it is out of print).
Below is a link on a chapter on native plants in the gardens at The Mount, Edith Wharton's Gilded Age estate in the Berkshires, MA.
EDITH WHARTON: AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE BERKSHIRES CHAPTER BY HONEY SHARP
Read her full chapter HERE.
On the topic of gardens and publications, my garden, Seekonk Farm in the Berkshires received a Golden Trowel Award from the magazine Garden Design. In addition, it was featured in the book, Great Gardens of the Berkshires by Virginia Small, with photographs by Rich Pomerantz.
