Soil to Story

We grow things. We make things. Sometimes we even finish them.

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Welcome to our little slice of not-quite-a-farm.

We left Seattle and settled on a couple acres in Tacoma: enough room for a big garden, a workshop big enough for any fantasy, and a future full of slow-made things.

Right now, we’re digging up rocks (so many rocks), planting beds where there used to be lawn, cooking with what we grow, and building things.

The “back 40” might hold sunflowers, or corn, chickens, or goats someday, but for now, it’s just holding possibilities.

Soil to Story is where it all comes together: the garden, the workshop, the kitchen, and Paper Trail, my custom memory book studio. This is a work-in-progress kind of life, shared one dirty, delicious, half-baked story at a time.

These Are Not Our Birds

My grandparents were chicken farmers. When I found their marriage license, I was delighted to see that my grandpa’s listed occupation was Poultryman. (Yes. Capital P.)

Dean likes to say I “come from chicken.”

Naturally, I’ve been trying to convince him that this means we should have chickens. We’ve got the space, I have the ancestral claim, and… well, we all know about The Price of Eggs these days, right?

So far, I’ve made exactly zero progress.

This morning, I was in my office, looked out the window… and saw this:

Okay, yes – I stepped outside to take the photo. But still.

Is the universe trying to tell us something?


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