It’s where we grow food, raise chickens, homeschool our children, build chicken coops and Gathering Baskets, and welcome people into our greenhouse to learn skills that used to be part of everyday life. Somewhere along the way, it also became the place where a little business—and an even more unexpected community—started growing. And all of this is happening alongside our regular lives. I still work in a busy ER, and my husband comes home from his own workday and often heads

Curing Garlic If there is one crop I wish I had started growing sooner, it’s garlic. This is only my second year growing it, and I honestly can’t believe how easy it has been. When I first started gardening, garlic seemed intimidating. The idea of planting something in the fall and waiting until summer to harvest it felt like such a long commitment. But after trying it for the first time, I quickly realized I had been overthinking it. Fall of 2024, I planted 75 garlic cloves