My senior year in college, I was browsing around Anthropologie when I came across a coffee table book on urban farming. Curiosity got the better of me and next thing I know, I’m nose deep into the book on the chapter about backyard chickens thinking, “I could totally do this.” I left the store with […]
The first fall after I married, I made a bee line to my grandmother’s house to learn to make jelly. Both my mother and grandmother were Missouri farm girls, so they were expert canners and bakers – their life simply depended upon it. I was raised in the city (Tulsa, Oklahoma) and while I had […]
The thrill of hunting for anything I’m foraging has never been quite so exciting. From the moment I heard about “mushrooming”, I was bent on experiencing it. Perhaps fears propelled me. I had many. First and foremost, I feared that if I picked the wrong mushroom and went to cook up the delectable delight, I […]