San Juan Family

Last night, I fell asleep imagining we were home in San Juan Island.  I strolled through my garden pathways overlooking the Pacific. I could see Vancouver, fiddleneck ferns, and moss growing on the edge of my pavers.  Inside, I had a vaulted ceiling with a trapeze and room to practice hula hooping tricks, even in [...]

I’ve been reading about this because our gardening soil here in Central WA sucks, it’s got a lot of clay in it and my carrots were short, everything else was… blah. Anyway, I wasn’t impressed. I had a small compost and I’m thinking that I need to start a bigger one. I know we plan [...]

Not quite what we planned, but it will work anyway. We were hoping to use the unfortunate incident with our water heater to get our butts in gear and get to the San Juans, so we could actually BE the San Juan Family that we’re supposed to be. However, the water heater was repaired, the [...]

Growing up in Central Florida, I was fortunate to have good year-round growing conditions. My grandparents were avid gardeners, and I remember the big jar painted white sitting on the counter to collect food for the compost pile. Once it was filled, my granddad would take it out to the compost bin and turn in, [...]

I’m not sure if I’ve done one of these posts yet. This website is like my written report and research, documenting life in the San Juan Islands with children. We visited San Juan Island in June of 2009 as part of a group field trip for homeschoolers and were permanently damaged. Life anywhere else had [...]