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The new kitchen garden is slowly taking shape and starting to deliver on daily fresh ingredients. The first four raised beds went in two months ago, just before the coop and run were delivered. I planned to immediately add four more after the install. But watering, in our current dry conditions, consumed most of my…

I started painting to escape into a world of color and imagination while my dad was dying. Shortly after he passed, everything I painted ended up an ugly and radioactive landscape that I wanted to burn. Instead of setting things on fire, I covered the canvases in black tinted gesso and made them into monochromatic…

As the garden goes in, our wheelbarrow is ever occupied moving blocks, wood, bags of moisture retaining soil for the deep vegetable beds, and dump-truck-dropped soil for in ground applications. And I love it! This ground work is like putting up the walls and roof on a house. There is still a long way to…

This month, work took me to the windy city. Though sleep was hard to come by while there — with the sirens sounding, cars racing around at all hours, and industrial equipment turning on and off all night long — the change of scenery was still wonderfully refreshing. I also enjoyed the opportunity to engage…