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If you’re entering into the world of cut flower business, a flower cooler is something that you’ll likely be investing in, to grow your business and give your cut flowers the most bang for their buck! Let me show you how you can easily DIY one from, even the smallest corner of your garage. Flower […]

DIY Flower Cooler from an Existing Structure | Keeping Flowers Fresh

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flower cooler room

A breakdown of our garlic season to season: A crop that takes it’s time, and we’re grateful for it. Garlic Season to Season Every fall, when most of the garden is winding down and the last tomatoes are being picked, we start thinking about next year’s garlic. It always feels a little backwards. The garden […]

A Year in the Life of Our Garlic Patch: From One Clove to A Year’s Worth of Flavor

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Harvesting Garlic

Join me on my most recent project: creating a timeless outdoor fountain A surprising number of photos in my camera roll are of old watering troughs. Over the years, I’ve photographed them in France, Spain, and Italy. Some were still being used by livestock. Some held flowers. Others sat quietly in village squares with water […]

How We Built an Old-World Stone Trough Fountain (And What I Learned Along the Way)

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Sitting area with a stone fountain

Willow basket weaving begins years before your hands ever touch a rod. For an inside look into growing, harvesting, soaking, and drying willow to use in your projects, you’ve come to the right place. The work of preparing Willow There is a particular kind of quiet that lives in a willow rod. In early spring, […]

Preparing to Weave with Willow: From Living Branches to Basket

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Weaving a Willow Basket

Over the years, I’ve learned there are a handful of very small, very quiet things that bring life back into a house that has carried a family through a long winter. Late winter is when I start noticing it. Not mess.Not dirt.Not clutter. (but with six of us here, this gets hard not to notice) […]

A House Gets Tired in February — Here’s How I Help Refresh Ours

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kitchen sink

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