Last Tuesday was the final week of our fall/winter CSA share and in his newsletter our farmer, Eduardo, said that there were some big changes ahead for his family and this may have been his last season farming. Sure, there are plenty of other CSAs we could buy a share from, but Eduardo has been …
Category: Books
City Folk Move to the Country
I got an email from a local indie publisher the other day about a new upcoming book about a couple who lived in a city in Ireland and then moved to the country to pursue a rural agrarian homesteading sort of life, living lightly on the earth, discovering what it means to be rooted and …
Reading and Gardening
Morning glories behind my sun scorched honeyberry I got a second COVID booster Friday afternoon and I expected the side effects would be very much like the last booster—sore arm, headache, and really tired for about 36 hours. So I was super surprised that after the headache I got vertigo. It wasn’t bad. As long …
The Only Way is Through
Today is the last day of my vacation. Sadly I didn’t achieve that relaxed vacation feeling until sometime in the middle of Saturday afternoon. In spite of all the wonderful mornings gardening, I was just so wound up that it took forever to chip it all away, and now that I’m ready to have a …
How NOT to Avoid a Climate Disaster
I finished How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates a couple weeks ago but had to let it sit for awhile so I could write about it without losing my shit. Gates tries to pull off a folksy, easy to read, golly we can do this tone that made me bristle every time …