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.
Compare CFLs to LEDs, get wise to winter farmer’s markets, and so much more.
It’s as though something biblical – and sometimes panic-worthy – is happening.
The fuel is local and renewable, but there are a lot of other considerations.
The kale, collards, bok choy and lettuce are filling my fridge and challenging my creativity.
You get less than a month to enjoy the plantings around Fontaine Research Park before they’re ripped out.
We like to experiment with methods that save work and have a bigger payoff in the garden.
In contrast to our success with peppers, we had terrible luck with tomatoes this year.