Celebrate the start of the spring foraging season with this creamy fiddlehead soup with chives. A perfect earthy flavored soup for those cool spring evenings. This chowder like, soup takes advantage of the early spring harvest of ostrich fern fiddleheads and chives as they emerge from their ... Read More about Creamy Fiddlehead Soup with Chives
3 Tips to Keep Air Plants Alive
Having trouble keeping air plants alive? I was too. Believe me, all you need is a few simple tips to finally find success. I used to be a serial air plant killer. We used to bring those poor things into our home with every intention of giving them the best life ever, and a few weeks later, BAM... ... Read More about 3 Tips to Keep Air Plants Alive
Spring Foraging in the Woods
Spring foraging is one of my all time favorite activities. There’s just nothing like getting out into the woods, inhaling that fresh spring air, and finding joy in all the beautiful plants popping out of the ground. Here in New England, we found an abundance of wild foods to forage right in our ... Read More about Spring Foraging in the Woods
A Day in the Life of an Urban Homesteader
I've been getting a lot of questions lately about what it's like to run an urban homestead, and what my day to day looks like. It turns out a lot of my homesteader friends have been getting the same questions, so we decided to put together a series called, "A Day in the Life..." showing the ... Read More about A Day in the Life of an Urban Homesteader
Garden Talk with an Utterly Confused Neighbor
I was stooped over in the hot sun, soil up to my elbows and sweat running down my brow. Earthworms wriggled at my fingertips as I pushed tiny seeds into neat little rows. I was in my element, my own little world. It may as well have been miles away, on a quaint country road, instead of smack dab ... Read More about Garden Talk with an Utterly Confused Neighbor