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.
As if hens weren’t enough, we are also adding a mini-orchard to our little homestead this year.
We’ve always used Maine-based Johnny’s Selected Seeds, but I’m intrigued by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange in Louisa.
Crutchfield used to have a trailer outside the store that would take most electronics, but no longer. What to do?
I’ve been doing a lot of Dominion-related reading lately, plus some stuff about Tom Perriello and the Parkway.
In our hermetically sealed world, it can be easy to forget, or resent, the seasons.
Browsing a new book: Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff.
Neighbors sent us home with a dozen eggs from their very own chickens. Now this is living.
I turned to the intertube in my quest for a cotton shower curtain. Why did I think I needed such a thing?