Allen welcomes us back to the beauty of the farm with the Big Sister Oak, reflects on a Wendell Berry poem & William Turner's art, and shows how diversity in the garden strengthens everything, before ending in the kitchen with the simplest perfection of summer: a delicious tomato sandwich.

Allen explores how climbing plants stitch structure to sky: sweet potatoes and morning glories tumbling together, cypress vine and roses weaving up tuteurs, pear espaliers forming living walls, Boston ivy gripping brick in close-up, ending in the kitchen with a comforting sweet potato pie.

Allen unpacks bee life on the farm from gorgeous pollinator plants to the inside of the bees' hives with his beekeeper, Ted. Allen then bakes a honey cake using their honey and shares a cup of Moss Mountain Farm "contentment" tea, brewed from holly grown on site.

Allen traces life back to its smallest beginnings: starting seeds in the greenhouse, saving purple coneflowers in the drying house, decorating with okra pods, painting with black walnut ink, then finishing in the kitchen with a simple, nourishing lentil stew.

Allen explores ornament, from living hedges to cherished keepsakes. He walks the ferme ornee at Moss Mountain, talks floral alchemy with famed floral designer Shane Connolly, shares the gilded rooster saved from a farm fire, then roasts squash as sculptural as any centerpiece.

Allen celebrates trees as kin and resource: a generous display of heritage apples, sheep cleaning up acorns, the big sister oak hiding its lightning rod, a fig tree's gifts, an apple-brie galette in the kitchen, and delicate art made from pressed botanicals.