Colorado mountain homestead · 8,600 feet
Grow food. Build resilience.
Here, I share practical food-growing tips, honest garden experiments, and the everyday challenges of living in the mountains at the base of Pikes Peak.
This is the imperfect Colorado paradise Tim and I built together—and the place where I’m continuing to create the intentional life I would choose to escape to.
Vee’s art
From this season
Drought-tested lettuce, a modest berry harvest, and hard lessons from the vole patch.
Start with your real problem
What are you growing through?
You don’t need perfect weather, unlimited money, or acres of farmland. You need a practical plan for what you can grow, what needs protection, and where community can fill the gaps.
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Grow food that fits your life
Start affordably, choose crops for your conditions, and build a garden you can actually maintain.
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Protect what you plant
Work through drought, frost, hail, short seasons, and the wildlife that considers your garden dinner.
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Build local resilience
Grow a useful share, find community resources, connect with local gardeners, and use what succeeds.
The life behind the garden
Our staycation in the mountains.
Tim and I built our own staycation—a place where we could enjoy the mountains without fighting the crowds that come here to escape. We created gardens, growing spaces, and a home where ordinary days felt like something worth staying for.
It isn’t perfect, but it’s perfect for me.
Colorado is a character in this story. The altitude, seasons, wildlife, weather, and life at the base of Pikes Peak shape what I grow and how I live.
Free resource library
Useful help before you spend more.
Gardening can be costly, but it doesn’t have to be. Start with practical field notes and free tools created from real garden decisions—including the 5-Minute Farmstand Bouquet Pricing Checklist.
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From the farmstand
Seasonal plants and local goods live alongside practical workshops, printable guides, and products inspired by mountain life.
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Honest experiments
Latest field notes
What I planted, what happened, what it cost, what I learned, and what I’ll change next time.
