I’ve been getting quite a few questions lately about how we manage the heat off-grid, with no air conditioning. Um, is not very well and day-by-day a good enough answer? I guess that’s the honest answer, but I’ll try to share more about that another day. I can share a slightly more elaborate answer to…
There is this little waiting/dreaming game I do at this time of year in the garden. While I water and see the tomatoes, squash, peppers, cucumbers, and tomatillos flowering; I begin dreaming up vegetable ferment combinations. Definitely seeing a red and green salsa in there somewhere. Perhaps some summer squash pickles with the gads of…
Do you remember that day one of us said “I can’t take it anymore, I’m going to the garden.”?Well, that someone was the Papa there, and while everyone seemed to be having a particularly rough day, the garlic was also ready to be harvested to make way for some beans. So, to the garden we…
I recently received a hand-written letter from a dear friend we had to say good-bye to when we moved to the south. We met at the farmers market, of course, and bonded over her handmade soaps and the need for keeping my baby’s skin free from the nasty stuff in store-bought soap. This letter was…
