Pickled Loquats (Libbie Summers and Chia Chong)

Gifts For the Spoiled Dog

Speaking in a raspy voice that only a mother or lover would like –renown dog style expert, McGuire (Maggie) Jo Summers, stopped licking herself just long enough to give us her top three gift picks for this holiday season.

A Week in Review: Cherries

Photography by Chia Chong Recipes and Styling by Libbie Summers Podcast and Recipe by Brenda Anderson Artwork by katherine sandoz Floral Design by Ashley Bailey Profile by Andrea Goto Wine […]

chicken keeping then and now

In the olden days you’d throw down some scratch, call it a day and that was “keeping chickens.” Oh, and you had a stone-sharpened hatchet by the kitchen door and an old tree stump in the yard.

These days, a defining accessory – “good riddance” infinity pools, fasts cars and cute babies in aerospace industry engineered strollers – chickens both domestic and imported live at the level to which their owners are accustomed.