Winter Garden Harvest
Alleluia! I love saying that word, after a 40+ day drought. Alleluia, we are harvesting our winter garden. We ate our first broccoli and kholrabi yesterday evening, and, they weren’t quite what we...
View ArticleA Garden of Good Eats
Yesterday was one of those days when all of the pieces fell into place in our kitchen, making it a day of eating very good food. For breakfast, we had pancakes with buckwheat-oat-wheat flour ground in...
View ArticleGratuitous Generosity in the Backyard
It feels like Christmas in the garden. We’ve got volunteer plants raising their green heads all over the place–tomatoes and butternut squash and tatume squash and melons and cucumber and, did I...
View ArticleCan’t Wait to “Live in Heaven”
Homestead Daughter has a sweet post about the perks of living an agrarian life with her family. It’s a hopeful reminder to me of the delights that await our family when we begin to live our dream....
View ArticlePope Francis’s Eco-Encyclical Shows How Catholicism Is Neither Right Nor Left
I’m glad that Pope Francis has written an encyclical (Laudato Si) on the importance for humans to care for the environment. Because, quite simply, God created the natural world and has commanded us to...
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