I feel like this is a spring in my life… So many new beginnings… it makes me feel young again. I remember how difficult it was to leave my old farm behind – even afterwards more and more things from my old life have been shed or liquidated. It feels so distant now, like the…
Buttery Cauliflower With Toasted Pecans
I love the power surge that comes from the earth and sky in the beginning of spring. It happens so quickly. One drowsy winter day you fall asleep in the damp chill, and suddenly you are picked up and shaken awake in a whirl of pink and pure white and new green, and the bright…
HEALING SLEEP
I’ve discovered something that is one of the most powerful sources of healing and regeneration that I’ve ever experienced. It helps or resolves almost any problem. Infections, colds, stress, anxiety, injuries, surgery, heartbreak, anxiety, stress, insomnia, weight issues, aging, immune and brain issues, and many others. And it’s free and can be done at home!…
The Chicken Trap
So I have these bad chickens….. I had all the poultry closed up in a pen with ridiculously high sides. They have food, water, and i bring them a bucket of scraps and things out of the garden every day. But it wasn’t enough. Three of the hens grew their wing feathers back recently and…
CRISPY SESAME GARLIC EGGPLANT
The first frosts of the winter have come through. I am missing the woodstoves I left behind in my old life, but I remember, too, when we had first moved, and nothing was finished yet, and the slow process over eight years where life felt more and more comfortable. Little details, like which direction a…
The Sacred Mother
Being in this new place, I am still getting to know this new piece of earth, and all the plants and the animals that live here and were here before us. Starting over all fresh, I can see the way the land shifts to me with how I live, the ways I walk, the things…
Pork Meatballs With Persimmon Barbecue Sauce
I always feel a rebirth this time of year here in Florida – the winds come through and blow away the heavy, moldy, damp, boiling hot summer and bring fresh, cool mornings and bright fall skies. The crushing vines the ruled the garden wither back, and tender new things grow in neat rows in the…
The Threshold
“My barn having burned to the ground I can now see the moon” I did it. After all these troublesome months of so much frantic driving back-and-forth, and the heartache, and the struggle, it’s over. I feel so much relief, but I also feel like I’ve come through a war, still with sword in hand, stalwart…
First Night
I have been working so, so hard….I am just on the cusp of moving my animals over. Kasey, my helper, has been working hard, too, pictured here welding a special attachment to a gate so I can keep the poultry locked up (I am sooooo over the free- range poultry. It’s like living with a…
Counter-Top Sweet Potato Slips
If there is anything that farming and homesteading have taught me, it is that you must never give up. Death and loss and horrible things happen, but giving up is the only real mistake, and abundance is always there, if only you can find the creativity and inspiration to use it. The magic of the…
Here and There
I wish that I had something better to say, but I am living in a war. I am still at my old place here in Alachua, working and working like the girl with brothers turned into seven swans, toiling like she toiled over that last shirt to try to get out and get away and…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 