by Carolyn Crane | Sep 29, 2026 | Book Reviews
What Came West, Josh Weil’s second novel, recounts the life of a troubled, neurodivergent man who flees from civilization in Ohio. After some grueling adventures, the protagonist, Silas, makes it to California and settles into the Sierra Nevada Foothills several years...
by Carolyn Crane | Aug 27, 2026 | Field Trips
On Saturday, August 8, 2026, I journeyed to the northwest edge of the mitten, between Torch Lake and Lake Michigan. The town: Kewadin. The venue: Stone Circle. My friend Joe Troyer had been talking about Stone Circle since I met him waiting in line at a James McMurtry...
by Carolyn Crane | Sep 28, 2025 | Native Plants, The Land
The journey to earn my MAEAP verification began when I visited Susan Beecher’s land in Chelsea on a Wild Ones tour in 2022. Susan had a native meadows, trees, rain gardens, a flourishing ecosystem. My original goal of creating a traditional farm was already...
by Carolyn Crane | Jul 25, 2025 | The Land
Three years ago this coming fall, I killed my lawn and sowed an acre of native flower and grass seed on the east acre between my house and road. They say a rewilded meadow sleeps the first summer, creeps the second, and leaps the third. I thought it leapt last summer,...
by Carolyn Crane | Nov 3, 2024 | Native Plants, The Land
Part One: May 2024 This spring it was finally time to focus on Zone Four, the Future Food Forest. I attended native tree sales in Monroe and Washtenaw Counties, and came away with small saplings of these trees: meadowsweet, choke cherry, wild plum, pasture rose, and...
