Why I Don’t Date Guys Who Want to Live Off-Grid (Even Though I Wouldn’t Mind Living Off-Grid)

Against the Grain, with Purpose

Red Tail Grains

Plant Profile: Valerian

Valerian (Valeriana off.) is an herbaceous perennial in the Valerianaceae Family.

How I went to a Cat Cafe

and ended up in a Brave New World

Ecology, Energy, and Sense of Place

How We Grow from the Land

In 1952, A few friends…

Plant Profile: Salal

Salal (Gaultheria shallon) is a shrub in the Ericaceae family of plants, and is a relative of both the common blueberry…

Truly Homegrown

Above the sound of knife on the chopping board, Nissa Wargadipura said to a student cleaning a bunch of water spinach over the…

Plant Profile: Yarrow

Achillea millefolum

Asteraceae Family

Blackberries Never Say Die

“Why are all the good quotes about thorny things about roses?” — Hollyann

My mother’s parents lived in a small town in Oregon so we didn’t see them very often, but we were never really able to escape their influence. My grandfather was a retired Air Force…