steward & storyteller

“No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it.”

- Wendell Berry

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“take care of this world, explore and love it, have dominion in it, be faithful stewards of it - for me, for you, for the future of the world.

Genesis Paraphrased, Steve Garber

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“God made man because he loves stories.”

Elie Wiesel

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Grateful to receive a hard copy of the May issue of The Christian Century which includes my review on Priyanka Kumar’s lovely book, Conversations with Birds.
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Because this is a Christian publication I felt that it was important to note the abs

Middle of May in the South Louisiana garden. Plums, dewberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, and the most beautiful dahlia I have ever seen.
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#agrarian #growyourown #homegrown #regenerativeagriculture #fruitandflowers

First dahlia of the year is about to bloom. This one is an Ivanneti which is a medium sized ball variety.
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Also - Dahlia the baby duck. She is the highest flyer of them all and often ends up on top of the chickens coop or at the tip top of trees.

Backed ourselves up into a creek bed to get a couple handfuls of these.
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#foragedfood #foraging #wildberries #freerangefood #smallfarmlife #agrarian

Picked two buckets of flowers before the rain came. 93 degrees and humidity for days. Follow me for more hair style advice. I call this one the twist and knot... it’s high farmer fashion and function all at once👌🏻
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#flowerfarmer

Picking potatoes, celery, strawberries and flowers right now. Also found a random sweet potato that wintered underground from last season.
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If you let them dry in the sun and then leave the dirt on them your potatoes will keep longer. 👌🏻👩🏻&zwj;?

One of the most dependable plants in the garden, this particular patch of calendulas has been in bloom since I started them as seeds last August. They survived a heat wave and winter freezes without really skipping a beat.
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In addition to being stun

Hometown Rodeo. 👌🏻🐴🙌🏻
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@mshanegan @goosepaint @bradmilioto @cabinetcentralllc

As some of you may recall, one of my biggest aspirations for Muscovy duck ownership was that one day they would grow up to be snake hunters who would live on my pond and deliver the kind of mobile, hands off, pest control that farm life dreams are ma

🌱 “Mom did you know that in nine years I will be able to vote?”
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Me: “That is so awesome. What kind of stuff are your going to be interested in supporting or resolving?”
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🌱”Definitely all the stuff about people in c

“The modern mind sees only half of the horse - the half which may become a dynamo, or an automobile, or any other horsepowered machine. If this mind had much respect for the full-dimensioned, grass eating horse, it would never have invented th

First picks off of our container peach tree. Small but delicious. And even more delicious when you grew them yourself.
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Also, despite its smallness, this one beat out most of our other peach trees in production after the other guys lost their fruit

Last week I wrote on my substack about the dangers of “just planting” things, the trouble with the “in-betweens” and the invitation we have to a journey where arriving just isn’t really a thing.
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In that I noted, &ldquo

Just started this one last night.
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Balthasar has been on my list for a while. I read pieces of his work in grad school and loved everything but I haven’t gotten around to a full book of his until now.
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He kicks off the preface by discussing

First potatoes of spring.
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I love potatoes, eating them and growing them. The harvest is like digging for treasure, you have no idea what you will find.
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Here in Louisiana we have two potato planting seasons, one that begins in Jan and ends in Mar

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”
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Aldo Leopold
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#foragedflowers #flowerfarmer #dailyblooms #gr

Every animal on our farm is of unknown descent. Including the baby ducks who are not even Mama Duck Daffodil’s biological children (that is a story for another day). In light of this we can only make hazy estimates about when they were all bor

I wrote a review on Priyanka Kumar’s book Conversations with Birds, for The Christian Century last week.
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Though it’s categorized as a collection of essays, one might, at first glance, mistake it as a coffee-table book of whimsical shelf