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…Continue readingSow With Abandon
We 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…Continue readingLiving a Disability Adventure
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…Continue readingLove the Butterfly? Embrace the (Milk)weeds!
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…Continue readingTrue Fast Food
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…Continue readingBrush Away Winter with Fresh Herbs
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…Continue readingFresh Food for Tube-Fed Tummies
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…Continue readingSweet Strawberry Surprises
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…Continue readingHave You Seen My Roof?
