The Radical Homemaker

Warning: Blending authenticity with joy may arouse contempt.

The Song Sparrow

He wants me to pick out his glasses. “Anything will do”, I tell him.  I lift the binoculars back to my eyes and study a song sparrow on the tip of the Spirea beside the pond, how he draws his breath so deeply, and passionately inflects with his entire body each trill and warble. “But […]

The Big Red Barn

Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask Of anything, or anyone, Yet it is ours, and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.  — Mary Oliver, Snow Geese   The survival of a livestock farm in a natural system relies heavily on her […]

Vaccines & Asses

The opinion piece written by the doctor for the NY Times says there are four types of folks who are resisting the Covid vaccine:  the Watchful, the Cost-Anxious, the System Distrusters, and Covid Skeptics.*  None of these describes Ula. She was fine when each of us became eligible for the vaccine and she remained below […]

#SapbushSaturday Special May 29, 9-2

Cuban-Style Black Beans & Rice (Moros y Cristianos) Topped with Wood-smoked Sap Bush Chorizo Cilantr0-lime slaw Homemade (gf) pie   Choice of any specialty coffee, tea or a mojito Prix Fixe 24.95 As always, we open at 9 with our fresh croissants, baked goods, coffee and our full breakfast/lunch/brunch menu.

Spring Headstones

One of our favorite history lessons with the girls was to walk the dirt roads and through the forests and fields, studying the historical clues:  the stone walls and foundations that made the first homesteads and paddocks, the barbed wire that followed the civil war, the monoculture timber that came in the great depression, after […]