Welcome to Our Acreage
We offer homegrown insights inspired by
our adventures living with profound neurological and physical disability.
We hope this site will help advance inclusion for people
with all sorts of identities and abilities.
You’re welcome here!
- Sow With Abandon
Something happens when you grow your own food that makes it taste better. Even if you grow just a tiny bit of green to add to your salad, steak, or… - Living a Disability AdventureWe anticipated adventure when we moved to our acreage in 1995. We had visions of wildlife in the backyard, a horse or two in the pasture, and raising our daughters…
- Love the Butterfly? Embrace the (Milk)weeds!
As former professional bean walker, I ’ve always hated milkweed. It’s slippery, slimy, sticky and stinky. It turns your hands a putrid green when you try to pull it, and… - True Fast Food
As a kid growing up on the edge of a tiny town (population 423, if everyone was home), fast food was much different than it was for “city folk”. The… - Brush Away Winter with Fresh Herbs
Over the winter, the herbs that we were trying to grow in the house grew spindly, then started to dry up, no matter how diligently we cared for them. Then we… - Fresh Food for Tube-Fed Tummies
Each spring, a family of hummingbirds returns to our yard. At the first sighting of these tube-fed tummy buddies, Kyra and I quickly clean up our feeder and whip up… - Sweet Strawberry Surprises
Searching for sweet strawberry surprises in the spring is a garden adventure I love to share with Kyra. From her wheelchair seat high above the ground, she examines the berry… - Have You Seen My Roof?
After a recent storm, we got a phone from the neighbor about half a mile to the west of us. She asked if we had seen the roof of her…
