Kjirsti & Tom

Brecklyn and Talia, and all the Winder kids for that matter, love corn, specifically corn on the cob. So I bought some. Despite Brecklyn’s braces (and advice from her orthodontist that she not eat corn) and Talia’s lack of teeth, the girls both got inventive the other night in order to appease their desire to…

It has been an incredible summer in Cleveland. It has been warm and sunny with just enough rainy days to facilitate my not having to water! My plants are loving it, and growing at such a speed I can’t keep up with them. We’re enjoying strawberries and peas, and I cut daisies and roses to…

the snails are out. . . . . .and enjoying my molten lava and coreopsis.

Our strawberries have been ripening daily. Each day we get a little bowlful to enjoy for breakfast and midday snacks. The girls love to wonder out their when they need a little pick me up to search for a sweet red berry. Unfortunately, every visit to the healthy patch has been accompanied with bad news…

The girls and I went to the art walk together today and had a blast. After a fun though exhausting day at the beach yesterday we all had a slow morning. Breck and Tali spent most of the morning making an 8 foot chain of dandelions. (Oh, and the other reason people were slow this…

I would like to welcome Sabina Winder as one of our new contributors at Craving Dirt. Her post below shows her prowess for writing and growing. She is one of my garden mentors, it’s rare that we end a phone conversation without some sort of gardening ramble. She joins us from Centerville, UT right outside…

When Tom told me a couple of years ago that there was a great beach in Cleveland, I didn’t believe him. Well he proved me wrong. We went to Mentor Headlands for the first time last fall with Cassie and Doug. Yesterday we went again with the girls. It was sunny and beautiful- a perfect…

When it comes to gardening, I have many dreams.  I draw the content of these fantasies from my gardening magazines where people with endless incomes, endless sun, and endless space create breathtaking gardens, or from the flower catalogs that I save and devour with the same intensity and excitement as a child with the Christmas…

I just finished the first week of the first session of my summer music camp. I’ll be blunt- it was crazy! I had a nice curriculum laid out. First we would play introduction games. Then we would learn solfeggio, after that we would work on our song Do-Re-Me during which time I would explain proper…

I left for a two week vacation just after I had planted my garden and pots. I have to admit I was a bit nervous. However, I left all of my dear plants in the hands of my capable and willing husband who took care of them all with diligence. Thanks to a persistent waterer…