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    How to hang dry summer herbs

    Around the Table, In the Garden

    Our garden has several varieties of fresh herbs and taking the time to hang dry…

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    The Secret Second Season: What to Plant in August for a Fall Garden

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    It’s late July and here in zone 6b, I’m planning the fall garden. Oh, you…

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    What To Do With a Billion Spoon Tomatoes

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    Last year, we grew approximately one billion spoon tomatoes. Here are some methods and recipes to use them up.

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    The $25 Cherry Tomato Garden Arch That’s Holding Up My Massive SUPER Sweet 100s

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    My Super Sweet 100s plant is an absolute unit, and this $25 cherry tomato garden…

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I really love timing the reading of books to the s I really love timing the reading of books to the seasons and these five fall books are filled with folk tales, wild places, & dark magic for perfect autumn vibes. Yes, so four out of the five all fantasy novels and yes, they are all written really well.🍂 Godkiller by Hannah Kaner🍂 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl and illustrated by Billy Renkl🍂Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher 🍂 Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
It’s planner season and I’ve recently received the It’s planner season and I’ve recently received the one I’m using for 2027: the Faded Chronicle Planner in a B6 Compact size.Rather than the A5, I ended up choosing the B6 Compact this year. I thought it might be a tad more portable in my bag but once it got here, it felt a little small. It's a little less than an inch smaller from top, and about half an inch smaller on the sides from an A5. I am in love with how the Faded Chronicle is dated with horizontal weeks with a twist. The top of the weekly 2-page spread has small boxes for each day. Then on the left side are horizontal days with the right side a space for habit tracking and four boxes writing. But they are BLANK and unlabeled, so you have ultimate freedom here. Because the print is light, you can write across the page as with any notebook or you can organize within the four boxes. Once I've actually lived with the Faded Chronicle Planner for a month or two, I'll come back with a full review to see if it holds up to my initial excitement. If you're planner-shopping too, I'd love to hear what you landed on! @fadedchronicle #plannerseason
Recently, social media decided I was determined to Recently, social media decided I was determined to get into rebel canning. I mean, articles, group recommendations, video after video all about rebel canning. I'm not a rebel canner. So let’s talk about it.I feel like over time and testing, and lots of research, we’ve learned a few useful things. To me, it doesn’t feel worth it to ignore those results just because a shortcut is more convenient or feels more nostalgic.I know my grandma has a few recipes that seemed to work for her and her mother before her. One of those was canning tomato juice. They used an “open-kettle” method, which relies on the heat of the food alone to seal the jars. And I also have family members who talked about getting random stomach aches as kids. Maybe those really were random. Or maybe they came from improper food handling like it often is, including canning, leaving food out, cooking, or otherwise. There’s no way to know for sure now, and that uncertainty alone is enough for me..I don’t just want to avoid dying. I’d also really rather not get sick when there’s no good reason for it.And you guys, canning can be SO much work that I would cry if, after all that effort, a jar ended up spoiled or unsafe to eat. Home canning using tested guidelines still feels like I’m carrying on passed-down kitchen wisdom. It just also happens to come with the reassurance of decades of science backing it up, which is a trade-off I’m happy to make.
When we think of modern “Swedish design,” and its When we think of modern “Swedish design,” and its influence in the United States though IKEA, a large part was influenced by Karin Larsson’s work, captured through her husband Carl Larsson's paintings.“As a textile artist, furniture designer and interior architect, she created a completely new aesthetic for the Swedish home with bright colors, simple shapes and functional design.” [Carl Larsson Gården Sundborn @carllarssongarden]Trained in the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Karin was a bit of a quiet rebel artist at the time. She created a home and life that served her and her family first. Some trends of her time she enjoyed and used in her home, but in so many ways she did her own thing.So when I notice how many of our own colors land in that same family as the Larsson home, I don’t think it’s really about Carl’s paintings – which I do adore. But I think about Karin Larsson’s small rebellious work more. Painting by Carl Larsson, Hide-and-Seek (Kurragömma), 1898 showing one of Karin's textiles.
Our garden has several varieties of fresh herbs an Our garden has several varieties of fresh herbs and taking the time to hang dry summer herbs is my favorite easy way to give my home a delightfully witchy vibe. All you need is some string. More on the blog.
The title of this blog, Woodwives, came from the f The title of this blog, Woodwives, came from the folklore of the Germanic woodwife (or wood-wife).Jacob Grimm, of Grimms’ Fairy Tales fame, collected and studied Germanic folklore, and it is his writing that has led to most of what I’ve read about woodwives. Jacob Grimm thought the woodwives may have been related to the Greek and Roman stories of dryads or fauns. larger, scarier entities whose lives were bound up with the trees and the forest at large. Over time, the figures became more elf-like, dressed in moss, wild-women.These tales caution you to remain generous, and not to count your dumplings in the pot or loaves in the oven. After all, with the woodwives you rarely lose anything by being generous. If they take from your pot, they balance the scales. Their gifts look worthless at first (like wood chips or scraps of bark), but if accepted with gratitude, they transform into gold or neverending resources.Unless, of course, it’s caraway bread. How dare you.

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