After seven nights away and a full two weeks off of work, I can say with absolute certainty that everyone everywhere deserves a retreat from their daily lives every once in a while. Not just a vacation or an adventure, but a real retreat that encourages quiet and calm and reflection and possibly even productivity….
Category: lists of things
Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide + RECIPE: Spicy Ham Hand Pies
It’s official. We have entered cookie bake season which means I’m feeling very festive, a little fat, and way behind schedule on all of my gift purchasing. Without fail, every single Christmas I repeat this pattern where I sort of forget to be thoughtful until it’s nearly too late. I wax poetic to everyone who will…
The Cookbook Gift Guide for Every Friend on Your Christmas List
Christmas is coming my friends– whether we are ready or not. (We’re not). And it’s time to start leaning towards the gifts that add value to the lives of our loved ones and away from the things that feel like a burden (and like one more odd item to try and figure out how to…
Maui, Hawaii
I’ve been babbling about my farmer trip to Hawaii on social media and dribbling out tidbits to you all here for over a month now so I’ll try to get straight to the details and be brief in telling you about how magical my trip to Maui was (because I have a feeling you got…
Thanksgiving Guide + RECIPE: Hasselback Butternut Squash with Hot & Spicy Brown Butter Sauce
I really, really can’t wait to tell you all about our trip to Hawaii last month: the flavors, the trails, the beaches and the total inner calm surrounding a vacation filled with that much magic. A post with all my favorite spots and travel advice for your own adventures on Maui is coming real soon,…
New Orleans + RECIPE: Hummus with Curried Cauliflower
A lot has happened in the past week. If you’ve been following along on Instagram you’ll know we bought a tractor, got a new farm logo, presented to a group of Soil Sisters about the effectiveness of Instagram in storytelling, and created a whole meal inspired by my lunch with my momma at Shaya in…
Spring in the Greenhouse + Tools & Tips to Start Your Own Seeds
We’ve done it again! We have officially entered the sunny, beautiful, refreshing, warming greenhouse season! The 2018 season at Raleigh’s Hillside Farm has begun! We cleaned out all (okay, most) of the row cover, crates and landscape fabric that lived in our greenhouse over winter, sanitized every surface, cranked up the heater for the first…
Pacific Northwest Road Trip
All of southern Wisconsin is covered in a thick, beautiful blanket of snow right now. Snow has been falling on and off for the past week, and I know I probably shouldn’t be so excited about it because it’s making getting anywhere difficult for everyone but I’m pretty…
Rest & Recovery + D.C. Recos + RECIPE: Delicata, Leek & Chard Salad with Brown Butter Sauce
On Wednesday we said good bye to our CSA members for 2017. It’s a time of year that always comes with intense mixed emotions. And this year it was even more bittersweet because holy cats did that season go fast. It was a beautiful season filled with wonderful new friends, a hilarious and kind farm…
Four Days in Iceland + RECIPE: Icelandic Hot Dogs
Our second stop on farmer vacation 2017 was Iceland: the land of gorgeous scenery, geothermal energy and the infamous stopover. It was quite the shock traveling from 65-and-sunny Portugal to Iceland- eighteen degrees and shrouded in mist- but as soon as we hopped on the bus that would take us from the airport to downtown…
The Leek & The Carrot 