summer

Things I Love – Finding Balance

Between the book-writing and the baby, I feel blessed with abundance but that is concurrent with a lack of sleep and time in which to...

Elderflower & Lemon Cordial Recipe (The Boozy American Kind!)

The summer solstice brought many things alive in the garden, plants I'd been waiting to see bloom to know that summer was truly upon us...

An Intentional Summer: A free Ecourse from Homespun Seasonal Living

Kathie from Homespun Seasonal Living is offering a free class that is starting soon - An Intentional Summer. This 8-week e-course is designed to offer...

Things I Love: This Busy Summer

"There's a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."  This Leonard Cohen lyric really helped me through a tough patch this summer....

Poem: Harvesting Goldenrod

Harvesting Goldenrod While my hand was draped in goldand my whole self consumed with the scent of Solidago,he attacked in the gloaming, in the tall...

Recipe Box: Queen Anne’s Lace Flower Jelly

As I've discussed before, sometimes I think my neighbors must hate me for harboring a yard of unwanted pests and dingy weeds.  We encourage our...

Blackberry Mead: A One-Gallon Recipe

I can tell that it is truly summertime when I can gather large handfuls of blackberries from the wild brambles that surround the edges of...