I have always found baking to be a wonderful way to simultaneously explore my interests in science and feeding others. Cooking might be my first passion, with its flexibility and lack of rules. But baking… baking sans recipe takes the willingness to fail openly and miserably as well as a bit of a scientific hypothesis…
He calls me Ma and asks if it’s okay if he and his brother live on the land adjacent to us when they grow up. “How about this?” he says with wide eyes and upturned hands. “How about I grow apple trees and we have pigs and we bring you apples and lard from the…
I remember once being asked what homesteaders might do during the winter. I hesitate to even call these couple of months of cold fronts by that moniker lest my northern friends think I’m confused. But we are experiencing our version of winter here on the homestead and, like all the seasons, it has its…
I am watching – baby on my hip and jaw on the floor- as a house takes form. It wasn’t so long ago, you see, that such a thing was unfathomable to me. They say you shouldn’t live in your house while it’s being built. They say you need so many square feet per person….
