Jordan and I excel at making our lives more difficult than they need to be. Maybe it's the product of a chaotic past decade that we don't know how to come down off of. Or a desire to distract ourselves from more difficult tasks. Whatever the reason, sometimes we make choices that I look back … Continue reading On Planting 208 Baby Trees
Category: Sustainability
On Feathery Friends
Ever since I was a child, I've wanted chickens of my own. I remember visiting the local farm near our house, and my best friend, Amanda, and myself hunting for eggs to hide in our pockets, so that we could bring them home and try to incubate them. Once, I even brought home an egg … Continue reading On Feathery Friends
Living in accord with the land: how we’re doing
Back in January of 2020, I wrote a post about some of our goals related to living an environmentally conscious, slow--but also attainable--life (read the post here). Since then, I've watched the world get slammed by a global pandemic, we lost our childcare, we at times had upwards of 8 people living in our small … Continue reading Living in accord with the land: how we’re doing
On Living in Accord With the Land
(Written January 2020, shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As you can imagine, some of these goals got derailed by our loss of childcare and working full time jobs--but some flourished in the space that lockdown provided. I'll try to elaborate on all of that in another post soon!). For the last few … Continue reading On Living in Accord With the Land