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.
Is there any good, or less bad, gasoline?
In theory, it’s possible that some oil companies deserve our business more than others.
Foraging for wild plant knowledge
Those in the know eat goodies like ramps, morels, fiddlehead ferns…what can you find?
A canning book to get the juices flowing
Former ABODE contributor Jessie Knadler has a new cookbook, all about canning.
Digging into potting soil
Unsatisfied with commercial soils, this year we experimented with mixing our own.
Turn on to The Electricity Fairy
Showing tonight at 7:30, a documentary about the juice that’s running your computer, and what it means to Virginia.