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.
Growing grass and hand tools
What chickens fertilize and spring encourages, let the humble sickle destroy.
A tome for the hunter gatherer in you
Wouldn’t I be way cooler if I knew how to bake acorn flatbread?
May 2011: Turn the porch life on
Imagine standing in a house’s second-floor corridor. What comes to mind? How about large windows overlooking the house’s biggest vista, smaller windows into one bedroom, and clerestory windows overhead? Now throw in a tall, sloped ceiling, exposed trusses, and a view over a railing into the kitchen below. Then add various inspirations and references: Caribbean […]
May ABODE opens the windows
Your green highlight reel includes strawberries, rainwater collection, and invasive plants.
Big old spring garden week
Tomatoes galore, transplants out the wazoo, and more seeds than you can shake a stick at.
Screen time
After an uncomfortably hot night last night, we’re overdue for a little natural cooling.