So, it’s been a minute (decade?) since I’ve written a Harvest Monday post, but there’s no reason to not jump back in again, is there? This year looks a little different in the growing department with the majority of our food production being limited to our Kitchen Garden. This is…
Cota Tea (also known as Indian tea, Hopi Tea, Navajo Tea, Zuni Tea, and Greenthread) has been a favorite in our house for years. First discovered at our local farmers’ market, we were thrilled to find it growing wild on the property we currently care-take and have thoroughly enjoyed its abundant…
We’ve been in our new home for just over three months now. Though, if I’m being honest, it feels like much, much longer. Inside, we’ve been figuring out storage, adjusting to a tiny kitchen with very little counter space, navigating passive solar and the beginnings to what’s shaping up to…
I’ve always had an affinity for corn… A truly profound draw to it. I love the way it spirals up… Encircling itself as it reaches for the sun… Capturing the rain within its long outstretched leaves… Strongly rooted… Profoundly towering… Swaying in the breeze, dancing in the wind. The sounds,…
I’ve been missing this space and, being so full of so many stories to tell, unsure of how to make a re-entry. And so here we are, more than half-way through October and I’m barely editing many of September’s captures. I’ll chalk it up to the busy-ness of work and…
Where the heck did summer go? How is it possibly already September?! And why is the season shifting so swiftly?! And yet it is. The shift from summer to fall is upon us… With the first leaves turning, the later sunrises, the stormy afternoons, the fruit in pure abundance, and…