by Daisy | Mar 13, 2013 | Conversation, Fencepost
We have a new header! After years of the old hunter green, we were beginning to feel like one vase of dusty silk flowers and a floral wallpaper border away from 1997. We hope you will enjoy our NEW header, featuring the original scratchboard portrait of one of my...
by Daisy | Mar 5, 2013 | Conversation, Fencepost
It’s raining today, a good excuse to stay inside and write. We probably needed this rain. I’ve planted carrots and beets and so of course the top surface of the soil needs to stay moist until they’ve germinated and sent down long roots. I’ve...
by Ivory Soap | Feb 13, 2013 | Fencepost, Flops
This was my first freezer cooking attempt with my good friend Missy. We made waffles all day. There was really nothing wrong with the recipe. It’s just that we both have *sensory* kids. Her’s are anti-crispy when it comes to waffles and most...
by Daisy | Jan 23, 2013 | Fencepost, Reviews
This is the book you need if you are thinking about farming: small-scale, large-scale, any scale. It’s inspirational, but it doesn’t glorify anything. It has the nuts and bolts information you need to know before diving into farm life, like figuring out...
by Daisy | Jan 14, 2013 | Conversation, Fencepost
In Little House knitting news, I was halfway through knitting a second sock yesterday when I put down my needles and took up another set of needles. Tiny ones, size 1. When I’m in second sock mode I sometimes need a little break, not from knitting, but from...
by Daisy | Jan 3, 2013 | Conversation, Fencepost
I don’t like this. In case you can’t tell, what you see in the photo is a hole where a nice fat head of radicchio once grew. All that’s left is a splay of rootless outer leaves left to desiccate around the hole. A mole hole. Short of putting...
