The Unmaking of a Farm
Have you ever wanted to hold on to something that brought you to tears? Maybe it made you bleed. Perhaps it was dangerous. Or how about this: every day that you did it reminded you of how bloody futile morality…
August Farm Harvest: The Best Time To Do a Juice Detox
August is a great time to hit reset if you’re a gardener—almost everything you need is coming up in the garden, lowering your costs! It’s also usually around this time in the season that I feel like I’ve lost all…
Opinion: The Problem with Being an Anglophone in Quebec
In 1991, I crossed the Ontario border into Quebec strapped into the back of my social worker’s grey sedan. We lurched down the highway, rolling through the changing foliage into the mouth of the Appalachian Mountains, coasting into the Eastern…
How to Make Simple Dill Pickles
Simple Dill Pickles How to Make and Preserve Simple Dill Pickles Large Pot, for water bath 500 ml Jars with Lids Canning Jar Lifter For the Pickles 4 Heads Fresh Dill (I use four small heads from the garden,…
What To Do with Radishes
I always grow too much radish. And plant it in a hurry, under the weight of all the other things that I have to get done once planting season comes around. I promise myself that every year will be different,…
Top Ten Flowers to Grow from Seed (When Starting a Cut Flower Garden)
We started this whole farm venture with vegetables (I mean, if you don’t count the horses, pigs and chickens…). As we get a little further into the farm, we’ve decided to add cut flowers to the mix. We look forward…
Paleo Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp, the Healthier Version!
I’ve always loved rhubarb season. It signifies the beginning of summer—the heat is still bearable; school is coming to a close and our gardens haven’t been completely overtaken by weeds. High hopes, am I right? Rhubarb grows all season, but…
Slow Down. You’re Doing Fine.
This week, my husband and I celebrated nine years together. He scooped me away for the night, sans little ones, to one of our more sentimental destinations, Lake Placid. We looked so forward to it: a lake view from a…
May Essay: On Why I Chose Country Living
I’ve always had my life mapped out. I used to plan it out as a way to put myself to sleep-to drive myself forward. I designed it as I slept, a world where everything could be certain. Where everything was…
The Reality of Catching COVID
I thought I had dodged it. I was so far removed from the realities of COVID in our country utopia that I could very nearly pretend that it wasn’t a part of my world. When in reality, I think it…
