Let it be known that I am not any kind of gardening professional or aspiring homesteader. I grew up with a mom who always had a veggie patch, worked in a greenhouse during college, and simply enjoy eating local food 🙂 Because let’s face it, no tomato from the grocery can ever compare to one picked five minutes ago in your garden!
This year we put in our first raised beds in our “new” house–we’ve been here since March 2023–and thanks to a cool, rainy spring and start to summer, our plants are thriving. We’ve picked dozens of strawberries, plenty of kale and lettuce, the green beans are starting to ripen by the handful and the zucchini are quickly multiplying.… Read More »
The air is like campfire smoke here today.
Eric and I have bought lots of things secondhand over the past few years: furniture, textbooks, our car, my engagement ring. In the past couple of years I’ve bought more and more secondhand clothes, too. From talking with friends and family and observing their behavior with regards to clothes shopping, I’ve come to realize that there is a lot of mystery and some negative stereotypes associated with buying secondhand. I’d like to talk through them, based on my own experiences!… 
A couple of years ago, I was in the kitchen with E, his sister, and her now-fiancé J. We were making coconut milk shrimp stew for dinner, and J–a vegetarian–was heating up leftovers for himself.