by Jennifer Young | Jan 5, 2024 | Building, Design, Projects, Sheds
Rich & Katie’s shed in November of 2023 DIY Shed Designing the Build In May, we birthed a design for Rich & Katie’s diy-wood-sided shed, which I wrote about in Rich & Katie’s Shed I. That design grew from trying to solve a major problem:...
by Jennifer Young | Jan 1, 2024 | Butterfly Garden, In the Garden, Inspiration
A True Story Butterfly Gardening: Learning by Doing! Jump to Accidental Video Last April, my garden was included on our city’s Columbia Green Garden Tour, which features backyard gardens in one neighborhood in Columbia, SC each year. Last year, it was our...
by Jennifer Young | Dec 15, 2023 | Design, Projects, Sheds
Problem ↓ Solution ↓ Design A shed design, like every project (I think) begins with a problem that begs a solution, and proceeds toward possible solutions that eventually birth a design. So began the story of Rich & Katie’s shed. Rich & Katie’s...
by Jennifer Young | Dec 10, 2023 | Desserts, In the Kitchen
Laura has all of Grams’s old cookie recipes. When she was home, she made a full batch of Rike’s Cherry Cookies. Oh, so good! Rike’s Department Store Memories My grandmother, Freda Ramsey (who we called Grams), worked for years as the customer service...
by Jennifer Young | Dec 3, 2023 | Beverages, In the Kitchen, Shrubs
Shrubs…an Ongoing Inquiry into Deliciousness Follow up on Cranberries Five Ways A Review of my empirical research:) Being the nerdy researcher and scientist that I am, I made and remade cranberry shrubs using these five methods so I could figure out why they...
