キャサリン・ハイグルさんのインスタグラム写真 - (キャサリン・ハイグルInstagram)「I’ve used this time of isolating to dive into the deep end of organic gardening. I may have bitten off a bit more than I can chew...literally. It began as a dream of homesteading. Of growing my family's food. Of spending my days, knees in the dirt, the smell of green all around me. Of nurturing the bud of life into harvest. Of wandering the paths between the garden beds in beautiful flowing dresses that catch in the breeze, my apron full of flowers. My dream was a romantic one. The reality...the reality has been sweat dripping down my back, off my nose, into my eyes. It has been tossing and turning at night trying to find a sweet spot that will soothe my aching muscles, my spasming back. It has been a pervasive powdery mildew rolling across the flat, wide leaves of my squash, my cucumbers, my zucchini like an angry ocean at high tide. It has been stinging nettle, fields of bindweed, errant grasses, prolific mint creeping and crawling and unfurling across every vegetable bed, under every fence line, in every crack. It has been a dirty pair of Carhartt overhauls and an ugly garden pouch full of spades, clippers, weeding tools and tissues for the sweat. Though the reality looks very different than the dream, the satisfaction, the reward, the success feels as I imagined it would. I have harvested enough zucchini to feed us for months. I’ve had brimming bowls of vibrant beets. I’ve pulled up pretty purple carrots by the handful. I’ve plucked enough kale for breakfast lunch and dinner. I’ve shopped the aisles of herbs like my own personal Whole Foods whenever a recipe calls for that extra dash of flavor. This garden is a hell of an undertaking with a pretty enormous learning curve but an incredible point of pride for me. It has humbled me and taught me and punished me and rewarded me. I have broken and admitted I need help and have had the grace of meeting and partnering with a wonderful young farmer and his wife @madsnacksproduce who is taking this journey to the next level with me. I’ve leaned into a lovely woman who actually enjoys weeding and who is winning the weed battle far better than I was alone. I have fought back the tides of mildew with a simple solution」8月2日 1時21分