Nathan and I love mushrooms, so you can imagine our excitement when we received our plug spawn in the mail from Fungi Perfecti! Now we can grown our own mushrooms! What is plug spawn, you ask? Plugs are sterilized dowels of birch with grooves carved into them that have been i ... Continue Reading
Nathan and I have joyfully embarked on a new journey … SPROUTING! When we learned about enzyme inhibitors which comprise most of the beans, nuts, and seeds we love and depend on for our main sources of protein, we were eager to learn how to make these foods more digestible ... Continue Reading
Here, I use the awesome hand-carved cedar yoga blocks than Nathan made for me for Christmas in a few poses. SUPTA BADA KONASANA Below, a wonderful restorative pose that is great for opening the shoulders, heart, and the hips–without overstretching them. This pose is a fab ... Continue Reading
We were excited to discover that our first harvest of Lions Mane mushrooms (from our mushroom kit, complements of Fungi Perfecti) were ready for our traditional weekend-morning breakfast. Here, the Lions Mane still attached to the mushroom kit. It was also conveniently time to ha ... Continue Reading
Ever since Nathan harvested his first wild mushroom (Chicken of the Woods) under the guidance of Jim Scheff back in 2009, he has been hooked on mushrooms. I got my first taste of the beauties of these wild fungi when Nathan introduced me to the glorious King Bolete at the crags ... Continue Reading
For Christmas, Mom and Dad got me a very generous gift certificate to REI, which afforded me a very fancy treat that I had been scoping out and hoping for for quite awhile … Brand new, made-in-the-USA, specially-designed-for-women, ultralight, extra long, MSR Lightning Asce ... Continue Reading
Nathan in his previous woodcarving studio (the floor) Nathan found an amazing workbench on Craigslist the other day, and we thought it would be too good to be true. We cruised over to Mount Vernon and scoped it out. It belonged to a man since he was a youngster, gifted to him ... Continue Reading
(A very belated post from a fun Jam-Making-Session in mid-October, 2011) How fortunate Nathan and I are to live in this land of abundance! Thanks to non-native Himalayan Blackberry bushes growing along nearly every road and trail in Nortwestern Washington, just a few berry-pick ... Continue Reading
NOVEMBER GARDENING Thanks to our proximity to the ocean, we’ve been able to enjoy our garden well into fall, and we anticipate that much of our bounty will continue to flourish through winter! Nathan, the constant gardener. I am more of the observer and taste-tester! I ... Continue Reading
Last weekend was bountiful for us here in rainy Washington. While I was at work, Nathan ventured out on a 30-mile bicycle ride on a closed Forest Service road. He was on a hunt for wild mushrooms. So far this season Nathan surprisingly hadn’t had much luck finding fun ... Continue Reading