Erika Howsare has been a C-VILLE contributor since 2002. Her first nonfiction book is The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors (2024), and she hosted a podcast miniseries called “If You See a Deer.” She teaches writing locally.
Local food rubber meets the road
Loudoun County has trouble getting locally grown produce into its schools.
A book to give you TV time back
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter is the most sensible publication of 2011.
December ABODE: Mix it up
The Coleman-Tharpe house is a standout in its postwar neighborhood. (Photos by Andrea Hubbell) In a way, Charlottesville’s full of houses like the Tharpe-Coleman place off Cherry Avenue. It’s boxy, modest, and surrounded by similar neighbors, all built for working-class families in the mid-1950s. In another way, this house is one of a kind. After all, the neighbors tend […]
Local woman produces next to no garbage
Check out the inspiring, informative Zero Garbage Challenge.
Staying out of the 50 percent
Half of gifts will get thrown away. Here’s a clue as to which ones get the ax.