by Kelli Donley | May 6, 2009 | Domestic Art, handmade, Happy Hippie
Nudu cap custom order, pumpkin seed granola, wrap skirts for Mother’s Day gifts My sewing machine broke again this weekend. I think the next time my mom offers to buy me a new machine — which she’s been insisting on for years — I’m not...
by Kelli Donley | May 4, 2009 | Domestic Art, Flora and Fauna, Happy Hippie
The tomatoes have officially arrived! I need to get some more canning jars. I see lots of Finny’s prized tomato sauce being made in the next month. Once upon a time, when I was spending far too much time reading blogs that made me feel completely inadequate, I...
by Kelli Donley | Apr 27, 2009 | Happy Hippie, Journal
Culinary simplicity, redefined. ~K
by Kelli Donley | Apr 27, 2009 | Faith, Flora and Fauna, Happy Hippie
What’s that hiding among all the green tomatoes? DOODE! A tomato grows in Tempe! (And a red one at that.) This weekend I listened to a great podcast discussing the Easter season and gardening — how spiritually clearing the earth and watching it bloom again...
by Kelli Donley | Apr 25, 2009 | Arizona, Community, Flora and Fauna, Happy Hippie
I was invited to table at the Old Town Farmer’s Market in Scottsdale today; it was fun to talk a bit about the organization I work for and to meet other nonprofit/gardener/activist folk. There were lots of families roaming the market, many with small children and...
by Kelli Donley | Apr 24, 2009 | Community, Happy Hippie, June Cleaver
With more than an acre of land, a half dozen families from Burundi and a well intentioned group of overly caffeinated volunteers, the community garden plots took bloom today. Actually, without irrigation this week, the rock hard caliche land left us little room to do...
