Took a walk in one of the pastures I am fixing up and found an old plastic soda bottle. Upon digging, discovered a garbage dump. Two black full trash bags so far and no end in sight. Not. Happy.

My happy place: picking dandelion flowers in the sunshine, then picking off all of the petals to make a lovely soft jelly with.

Loving the spring greens. Here I foraged dandelion, nettle, sorrel and plantain, picked kale and chard from the garden, and then added some baby spinach I had in the fridge. Seasoned and then cooked down with a little water and tomato sauce 😋

The sun finally showed up and I am happy to see it ☀️ Also happy to have the garden mostly planted; here's hoping the deer will continue to avoid the buffet while better fencing gets installed this year. My scrappy use-up-extra-yarn sweater is coming along, and now that the planting is in a good place perhaps I can finish it. I took some time to fly away with some friends, which was fun (highly recommend, if you can do it). Meanwhile, I've been making some changes. Like trading my smartphone for a Light Phone, and my desktop computer for a Daylight. My daughters and I are challenging each other to read an entire book every two weeks, and I'm loving that as my "reading" had become lazy due to the screen-scrolling kind. Also closing up my online client clinical herbalist practice, and choosing to keep my handful of local see-in-person clients instead. It's mostly a slow-go spring endeavoring towards an even more slow-go livestyle, and I'm happy with that pace thus far 🌿

Nettle's up, oh happy spring! That means it's time for me to get my green starts outside, another measure of happiness. I left my lemon verbena out all winter and even my chopped down celery. It all survived, even the celery (!) and is making a come back. Can't wait to check out my bioreactor compost later this summer after its yearlong stew.

Working on the second sleeve of my use-it-up scrappy yarn sweater. Spring is almost here so I better hurry it up!