Friends! It's been way, way too long. I never meant to abandon anyone here, but life intervened. I started a book proposal, sold it in t...

A friend jogged by the other day, when Alex and I were walking home from picking shadberries. You might know the fruits as Juneberries, serv...

I went swimming yesterday. We took a walk, with friends, in the woods near where I grew up on the coast of Maine. The walk felt almost norma...

Friends! Meet the Flying Dragon , a bitter hardy orange. Those small, golf-ball size fruits you see up there with all the blemishes are new ...

A neighbor reached out the other day about a bumper crop of currants. We started corresponding because of my curiosity about a bitter or...

We’ve been biking a lot lately. We’re down to one car and so while Alex is at work the girls and I make our way through the world on the...

I have always been a homebody. I like to be at home, and I enjoy the work that happens at home. I don't mind days on end in a small...

Friends! I hope you are hanging in there. We are doing well, mostly by the grace of spring. This week on the Local Food Report I reached o...

Friends. (FRIENDS!) Ahem. Still here, still isolating. Day twelve. An unclear number to go. A friend told me recently she thought she co...

Hello friends. How are you doing out there? I hope you are doing well. I hope you remain in good health and good spirits, and that you...