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.
Every year, when the asparagus comes in at our CSA, we mightily rejoice.
“Living carefully, purposely, frugally just. makes. sense. And is tons of fun.” Green living enthusiast Copeland Casati wrote that recently on her blog, and it’s as good a summary of what she and her family are up to as you could find. For the moment, this clan—pink-haired, tech-minded Copeland, her German-born husband Christoph and their […]
“When I got here,” says Jeannine Lalonde of the Walker Square condo she began renting in 2005, “there was one guy upstairs, and the next door neighbor moved in the same weekend. It was my first time living in new construction; it was a ghost town.” She kept waiting to meet people, but even power […]
We visit a family who lives without a well or electricity, and still pulls off a cool mod style.
I am newly manicured thanks to a morning of volunteering at Maple Hill, the Hub’s educational farm.
Though it would have been cheaper to run the fence off our house power, we spent the extra dough for a little solar panel.
After a rocky start, the first two weeks of chicken-keeping have delighted us.
It’s not that I have an obsession with worms. It’s that they’re part of the zeitgeist.