It’s still dark as I write this; the only lights on are the strings around the tree. Yesterday the sun shone so brightly we opened up the greenhouse ridge vent and doors and pulled the row cover off the greens so they could soak up all that light. As much as I love sunny winter …
Winter strode in quickly and definitively this week, with whipping winds that plunged us to 1ºF on Wednesday night, making this morning’s 20ºF feel warm, and the forecasted snow storm welcome. (Even though it’s been 3 years since we moved out of the yurt, I still associate lots of snow with extra insulation—heavy snow years always …
Just a week ago the hillside was alight in orange, yellow, and red. Maples, birches, and ash loudly announcing autumn. Now those leaves are falling to the ground, and its the pines and hemlocks that stand out, their green amidst bare gray limbs and the last brassy orange still hanging onto deciduous branches. It’s another …
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The greenhouse is already filled with overwintered lettuce and spinach, early seeded carrots, radishes and turnips, arugula and kale. We have, in fact, started to transplant into the pathways just to fit everything in. Inside our house, the living room has been taken over by seedlings. Literally—we moved the chairs, Waylon’s toy chest and …
January is National Soup Month! What?! I know, I’m as surprised as you are—who knew there was such a thing as National Soup Month? I thought it was simply soup season, as in October — February (because by March I’m really ready to move on to salads). But thanks to my local coop, I know …
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We’re 3 days in, and every time I write 2018 I feel enlivened and reminded of the endless possibilities there always are. What a gift: beginnings. And also a gift: the familiar framework of starting over. The lattices of love that support our growth after a hard year. For all I said about …
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