
I spent the last week at Golden Gate Fiber Institute -- a weeklong fiber arts retreat in the Marin Headlands. I have lots and lots of stuff I need to photograph and talk about, and the retreat was very inspiring,...
I came back from my week away all worked up to get rid of stuff and make the house feel less messy. One of the projects I wanted to take on was getting the bathroom shelves looking clean and being...
This is like a little potted bit of summer. The delicate flavour of white nectarines in a jar. White Nectarine Jam (makes about 6 to 7 1-cup jars of jam) About 1.5 kilos nectarines 800 grams sugar juice of...
During my first set of college years, I had a summer/work study job as a gardener. You might think that the major lessons were about plants and how to grow things, which I did learn. But the biggest lessons I...