Easy Weekday Blueberry Muffins
We are a homeschool family. You may know that by now, but aside from our educational choices, this simply means we are HOME for all three meals a day. Home, but very busy with all the second grade and fourth grade things. Weekday breakfasts need to be simple for sure, but they also need to…
Ultimate Einkorn Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Everybody has a favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. It’s just a thing. Remember that episode of Friends where Monica spends days trying to recreate Phoebe’s favorite childhood chocolate chip cookie? And by the end of the episode, learns it was the recipe on the back…
Did we destroy our Potager Garden? Now what?
One of the things that was most appealing about this 10 acre property we call home, was all the potential growing space. Space for a large vegetable garden, space for a Cottage garden around the house, a fruit orchard with room for more trees, fields…
Decorating for a Calm Cottage Christmas
Every year since we’ve been married, over 17 years now, we’ve pulled out the same couple of Christmas totes. Because our wedding just happened to be in the Fall (I originally wanted a Christmas wedding, but got outvoted), we were given a fair bit of…
5 Years in our Swedish Cottage: BEFORE & AFTER
It’s finally time you guys. Time to do a REAL, legit BEFORE & AFTER post for this Swedish Cottage of ours. We have spent five years pouring every spare moment and every dollar (and then some) into this homestead, and I want to really mark…
Secrets to successful secondhand shopping
Thrift stores are nothing new. All of you have probably been thrifting, or antiquing once in your life. And if you’re anything like me, you LOVE it. There’s nothing like secondhand shopping. Combing through a bunch of somebody else’s junk, just hoping you’ll find something…
Hi, I'm Kali!
Mama, farmer’s wife and the creator of the Potager book + blog. Follow along as we cook and garden the seasons, as well as fix up our little Swedish cottage in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
