There's nothing like big, yellow sunflower heads to prove that it's truly summer. Corn is tassling, the first slicer tomato will soon be ripening, and okra flowers are budding. We're eating green beans, summer squash, tommy-toe tomatoes, Swiss chard, and the last of the lettuce while waiting on the harvest deluge to hit.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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