BELLA FIGURA

Cultivating the Christmas spirit with nature, vintage finds, and your own two hands You can listen to the full podcast episode, "A...

A great use for all those Thanksgiving turkey bones Save the bones from your turkey, along with any other meat you served, and don't...

Use up stale bread in this delicious holiday recipe If there's one thing I can't stand it's wasting food. It happens, of course, but I...

A simple, delicious ferment for your healthy table Pickled foods are not only tasty, they’re really good for you. As a fermented food,...

I have a list of people I’m remembering today, All Souls’ Day. Some of them I knew very well. They helped raise me. They taught me. They...

A Manual for Everyday People “The dead are invisible, not absent.” —Saint Augustine Many traditions mark remembrance of the dead, as well...

Perspective from the past can help loosen modernity's grip on your life. A few things I find useful to remember: Unless you told them, or...

To my son on his second birthday These past two years, we’ve been shipmates, you and I, traversing all manner of water. The stormy early...

A magazine for folks like us. I’m so excited to have an essay in Angela Reed's, of Parisienne Farmgirl (@parisiennefarmgirl), latest...

Things I would tell her You learn as you get older. You learn things you just can’t have known before, because they require experience to...

People, fruit, and moments—all for savoring A few weeks ago we went apple picking, and before I made pie I took this portrait of them....

“Why do I bother going through the trouble?” I ask myself this more often than you’d think, especially on days when I’m tired. Especially...

Making time to live ancestrally. This is my mother, holding a very heavy harvest of wild mushrooms. It takes a lot of time and energy to...

So easy, so yummy, so good for you---what more do you want! The first time I made fermented sauerkraut, I went to a local Hudson Valley...

**GIVEAWAY!!** I’m giving away a free, exclusive bonus episode, along with a downloadable workbook, on dream interpretation to anyone who...

How to make beeswax taper candles The use of beeswax goes way back, to the ancient Egyptians, who used beeswax—the excess wax created by...

What to do with all those summer vegetables? Throw them into a convenient and nutritious quiche! A little while ago I confessed my love...

Learning to recognize when you've made a dream come true. Let’s talk about vision. We have this notion that when a vision becomes...

The dead are invisible, not absent. --Saint Augustine of Hippo Last week was my father's birthday. He passed away nearly 14 years ago. I...

Let’s talk about the lost arts; things our ancestors learned by default, knew by way of necessity, the way we learn how to navigate the...