A Life in the Making
Summer is the worst time to start a new project.
The kids are home and bored/hungry/fighting. The garden is like a fourth child, demanding my constant attention. The counters are filling up with produce to process. The lake and river calls us to swim daily. A steady stream of visitors arrives at the farm most days, some are events, some are friends, some are "oh I just wondered what was down this road". The days are long and full and busy. Actual work time is limited and there is a constant, low level competition between Kevin and I around who gets to work. It would be pure madness to start a new project smack dab in the middle of this.
Of course that is exactly what I am doing. Good sense was never my strongest attribute.
And so we have started working on what we hope is the first of a quarterly collection of recipes, how tos and essays from the farm, Life in the Making Quarterly. Producing print has always been a theme throughout my work and as I handed The Crochet Project over to Joanne a few months ago, it left a space just the right size for a Gartur-focussed publication.
And so, work has begun on a pulling together the first edition. I have been cooking and photographing and editing all around the summer of busyness. There have been some disasters, like when I specifically forgot to tell my family that the cake on the counter WAS NOT FOR EATING UNTIL I PHOTOGRAPHED IT and the whole thing disappeared while I was on a phone call or when I laid out a shoot in the event barn and had to run in to get a prop and the chickens got into the meal.
Well, good thing for us this isn't our first rodeo and I'd like to think we are pros at just hanging on for the ride.
And so, Life in the Making Quarterly is coming 1st of August. The late summer edition is a celebration of the work of the season - the eating! with recipes and essays all about the joy of sharing seasonal abundance with friends and neighbours, especially this year.
Print preorders open on the 2nd of August, with digital copies available as well.
But for now, enjoy the sneak peak of a photoshoot where Georgia "helped" with one of the chapters (and by "helped" I mean tasted each dish and gave a star rating).
And how about a cover peek?