How I keep my home & garden 100% pest free without pesticides!

Regular readers are aware that this is my third year living on a rural Virginia property. When we first moved here people told us “You’re living in the South now! You’ll need to regularly get your home sprayed or the…

Please welcome my new kitty Gemini!

I have a very special announcement today as I have welcomed a new kitty into my life! I adopted a kitten at the local shelter where I volunteer, which was a really great opportunity because it meant I was able…

My encounter with the Golden Healing Light

I’ve mentioned before that I’ve had experiences with healing entities, also sometimes referred to as Spirit Doctors. I had been curious about these beings for a while, but not so curious that I was going to try to force an…

What our pets want us to know when they pass

I was thinking that my first post after getting back from my trip would be about the incredible travel experiences I had just had, but when I came back, I immediately noticed that my cat wasn’t doing well and called…

Bye for now!

Just a quick update! I’m flying out tomorrow on a special 40th birthday trip! I have uploaded all of the monthly forecasts and they are scheduled to premier throughout the next couple of weeks. So don’t worry, you wont miss…

Building Resilience: Gardening through tough times

It’s been a very strange year for the garden! We had record lows all through June, no rain, then two weeks of non-stop rain, then Really REALLY hot. I know it’s been more or less like this everywhere so I…

There is a lesson here

I kept going back and forth about writing this blog post, whether it was appropriate, whether it would be taken the wrong way, but ultimately decided that I should just do it since it reflects my authentic voice. In short,…

The summer’s busy, but take a moment

It has been raining non-stop this whole week! There was a time in my life where I would have seen that as a bad thing, but as a gardener I have learned to really appreciate the rain. This has been…

Easy Asian-Style Garlic Scapes & Tofu

One of my big tasks this year is to figure out what to do with all of the fresh produce coming out of my garden. If you’re growing your own garlic (And you 100% should!!), that means you have a…

This is what abundance looks like

It’s the beginning of May and we are already clearing out harvests! So far it’s just mustard greens, turnips, and radishes, but it makes me excited for the season ahead. There is also a realization that there is a pressing…