Last night was another magical Thursday summer salon at Fairy-Tale Farm in Santa Cruz, and the crafts table was soon crowded with feather artists and those skilled in the ways of pink fur. Margaret’s daughter Zsa Zsa (wearing a pink dress that matched her zebra jacket) showed us her flower clip creation, and I noticed [...]

Just inside the gate at Fairy-Tale Farm last night, the first summertime salon was commencing, with beautiful glass jewelry and buttons, treats and a bright, slightly herbal punch, and jams and produce for the urban farm market part of the event—all in keeping with the organizers’ wishes: “Our intention is to grow a farmer’s market [...]

Sunday began at the Hope General Store in Hope, Maine, where Keryn and I found local mead to pair with the final course for Salt Water Farm‘s Sunday Supper that evening. On our way to Belfast, Maine for brunch at Chase’s Daily, we stopped at Keryn’s friend Ladleah’s house, and she showed us how her [...]

I woke up this morning and rushed to the refrigerator, smiling to see the blue and pink eggs from chickens I watched peck around Emily and Jeremy’s yard this weekend next to a gallon of raw milk. Reassured the weekend in the Berkshires wasn’t all a lovely dream, I scrambled a few eggs slowly and [...]

On Friday, I marveled at the green, green campus of the University of Miami on my way to a lunch session of Beyond Bootcamp, an intensive media training camp for journalists at the School of Communication. UM looks slightly different from the environs of the University of Virginia, especially at this time of year, and [...]