I finally found some time this past weekend to play in my vegetable garden. My son requested corn and my husband requested peppers; I added in tomatoes, lettuces, chard, summer squash and a crane melon (that will most likely grow too big and take over the entire bed where I have chard ... Read More »
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May 23, 2014
My family and I moved to our new home in September 2012; we moved from a home where we had lived for 17 years. During those years we had created quite the “nest”, complete with a beautiful gourmet kitchen, a barn built from recycled wood, vegetables, chickens, a landscaped backyard ... Read More »
Rain
March 7, 2014
Finally our hills in West Sonoma and Marin Counties look like they are supposed to look this time of year: GREEN! Whether it’s through the rolling hills of West Marin to Nick’s Cove in Marshall or over the hill through Carneros and up the valley to Saint Helena to the ... Read More »
Canvas Ranch
September 15, 2013
Rather than meeting in my office for our weekly meeting, our chef at Nick’s Cove and I went on a field trip to Canvas Ranch to pick up some delicious produce and (omg) drop-dead gorgeous strawberries. The owners of Canvas Ranch have been farming on their land for the past 12 ... Read More »
Nourish
September 11, 2013
There is a line in a song that goes something like this: “… life is a prize, but to live doesn’t mean you’re alive…” It’s from a Nicki Minaj rap that my son listens to and each time I hear that line in the song, it makes me pause. It ... Read More »