This is how it can feel: [INSERT FEELINGS OF VAST EMPTINESS AND DESPAIR HERE.] …..When The Radical Homemaker Blog goes silent. In the height of the growing season. When busy-ness is at its peak. And you need a moment to breathe. And remember what […]
Please.
“There are several words for thank you, there is no word for please.” I am reading Braiding Sweetgrass*, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, is talking about table manners in her native tongue. “Food was meant to be shared,” she explains. “No added politeness needed; it was simply a cultural given […]
Less Stress, More Profit
Lessons From A Kitchen Disaster It’s the middle of May, and I shuffle the bills like playing cards. It’s that time of year, when all the savings from the end of last fall have run dry, and I’m scanning due dates, matching them up with the the farm’s production and sales schedule: pairing feed bills […]
The Business of Creativity
Become a Patron When I was a teenager, my mom had a prescient friend who traveled to New Orleans with her. An aspiring jazz sax player myself, I longed to go with them, but had to stay home and go to school. While wandering down Bourbon Street one lazy afternoon, they came upon a young […]