How to romanticize the grocery store
I’m a romantic. A lover of beauty and form. I am also extremely motivated by aesthetics, order, and calm in my home and personal spaces. Whether it’s right or not,…
Read moreBiscotti with Orange and Chocolate Chips
Have you ever sat in a restaurant, enjoying a dish so much that even before you finished, you felt sad about it being gone? Not only that, but before leaving…
Read moreCottage Kitchen: How to Build a Dream
Let me start this post by saying very clearly, we do not at this time have any plans to renovate our cottage kitchen. We just completed a major remodel of…
Read moreEasy Weekday Blueberry Muffins
We are a homeschool family. You may know that by now, but aside from our educational choices, this simply means we are HOME for all three meals a day. Home,…
Read moreHow to romanticize the grocery store
I’m a romantic. A lover of beauty and form. I am also extremely motivated by aesthetics, order, and calm in my home and personal spaces. Whether it’s right or not, I can be inspired– or totally uninspired– to do certain homemaking tasks based on their contribution to my visual environment. Learning to romanticize the grocery…
Biscotti with Orange and Chocolate Chips
Have you ever sat in a restaurant, enjoying a dish so much that even before you finished, you felt sad about it being gone? Not only that, but before leaving the restaurant you’d already resolved to make your own version as soon as possible? This…
Cottage Kitchen: How to Build a Dream
Let me start this post by saying very clearly, we do not at this time have any plans to renovate our cottage kitchen. We just completed a major remodel of our home last summer, our current kitchen setup is serving us just fine, and frankly,…
Easy Weekday Blueberry Muffins
We are a homeschool family. You may know that by now, but aside from our educational choices, this simply means we are HOME for all three meals a day. Home, but very busy with all the second grade and fourth grade things. Weekday breakfasts need…
Ultimate Einkorn Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Everybody has a favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. It’s just a thing. Remember that episode of Friends where Monica spends days trying to recreate Phoebe’s favorite childhood chocolate chip cookie? And by the end of the episode, learns it was the recipe on the back…
Did we destroy our Potager Garden? Now what?
One of the things that was most appealing about this 10 acre property we call home, was all the potential growing space. Space for a large vegetable garden, space for a Cottage garden around the house, a fruit orchard with room for more trees, fields…
Hi, I'm Kali.
Mama, farmer’s wife and the creator of the Potager book + blog. Follow along as we cook and garden the seasons, as well as fix up our little Swedish cottage in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.







