Where Homesteaders & Italians Become Intertwined
For some, this is called homesteading. For many Italians, this is simply called eating. How gardens, preserving, local food and shared tables bring the two together.
While the Husband’s Away
While the husband’s away, the wife will labor and play: a poolside note from a summer weekend with friends, World Cup games, garden work, and a new video from the kitchen.
The biggest photographic tour of our garden yet!
Over 60 images of a piece of our hearts: a walk through our early summer cottage garden, weedy spots and all.
Self, Are You Listening?
Home again after a surprise 40th birthday trip abroad: on noticing the good gifts of ordinary life, growing less and enjoying more, plus my Sourdough Honey Cake with Italian Honey Meringue.
It’s Time to Start Over (+ Chicken Skewers with Peanut Sauce)
Starting the garden from the ground up (again), rethinking every recipe, and finding a new normal. Plus the grilled Chicken Skewers with Peanut Sauce we make in big batches all summer long.
A Hopeful Collection
A year after our weeks in Italy, a bird’s-eye view on the heavy load of modern life and why I’m starting small: seeds, spring baking, a hopeful collection of photographs, and a poem about walking.
Small Inconveniences
Notes from the barn, the kitchen and the dormant garden: why winter food on repeat is still delicious, the small inconveniences worth keeping, and holding on until lilacs and asparagus.
On What Cannot Be Rushed
Like a garden, a life isn't built in a day. On ripening slowly, embracing the years (and the wrinkles), and the good things that simply cannot be rushed.
You're Allowed To Be Ridiculous
I bought seeds for okra that grows twelve feet tall, purely for the delight of it. On loving beautiful, impractical things in the garden and in life, without needing to justify them.
