I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 8. It started as a way to make a “grown up” decision. And, honestly, it was not a very bold decision considering that my family did not eat red meat. But I’ve stuck with it because I know I personally could not handle killing animals for food. I do not feel comfortable outsourcing that task to a cruel food system with a horrendous environmental footprint. So as I soaked up information at several…
I got the best Valentine’s day bouquet! I was over at our p-patch and our winter kale was looking great. We started this kale from seed last spring and it is still going strong. And late winter into spring is when our kale thrives. We finally have more than 10 hours of daylight in the Pacific Northwest and the kale seems to know that spring is around the corner. In just the next month or so the kale plants will…
Last weekend a friend generously offered her cabin on Whidbey Island to us. What a gift to spend one of the last blue sky weekends in a spot that overlooks Puget Sound and is down the road from Ft. Ebey, a state park with bluffs that provide sweeping views of the Olympics and trails that wind through big trees. We cooked, wrote, lounged, hiked, and read. And we really didn’t want to leave. So at 3:30pm on Sunday we had…