Welcome!

March has always been an amazing transition month for me. I moved in with my then-boyfriend in March of 2008 (after 2 months of real dating!), got married in March of 2009, and now for March 2010, I wanted to do something for me. This blog is my way of exploring my interests more fully - finding new resources and conversations about things I that I'm interested in: bread baking (especially sourdough), knitting, weaving, housekeeping, bio-intensive gardening, eating local/farmers markets, slow food/money, education, real food (I'll explain what I mean by that later) trying new crafts, culturing/fermenting. I want to highlight my progress in working my way through new project (sourdough! my first time using cover crops! weaving my own cloth!), and share my thoughts about different social issues that confront me daily (education, transportation, poverty).

Open Pollination, for me, is the sharing of ideas and resources that have sparked my interest. I've had a few blogs before, and loved the community they develop. Last year was a whirlwind for so many reasons (got married, lots of traveling, two best friends got married, more traveling, gardening, started new job, etc), but now that it's planting time again I had an urge to settle in somewhere and put down some new roots into the blogging community.

I have a habit of buying way too much wool yarn, so unless I write 25 entries during the month of March, I'm not allowed to buy any wool for 2 months! This is my way of motivating myself out of my rut of just reading interesting blogs and thinking "Hey! I do that, too!"

So here is Open Pollination, my little anti-consumerism, do it myself, real food, urban homesteading blog. I hope I'll be sticking around for a while!