About Poppy
Former life: Ice cream scooper, Montessori teacher, student of psychology, weaver, spinner & natural dyer, clothing designer, entrepreneur, color consultant.
Inspiration: All forms of natural beauty, anything handmade, the way light changes, wild places, magazines with lots of photos, colors and their combinations.
Pleasures: Time with friends and family, cocktails on Friday night, snorkeling in the tropics, danceable music, gardening all day, yoga class, sitting by the woodstove.
Obsessions: Eating organic local food, being healthy, shopping at the farmers market, national politics, preserving our environment, making plans, being creative.
Struggles: Writing the way I see, worrying, being too impatient, reading and following directions, getting enough exercise.
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A Pot of Greens: Rainbow Chard
Swiss chard wasn’t on my vegetable radar until I heard that it’s one of Lily’s favorites. If you attach “rainbow” to the name of a green vegetable, there’s a good chance that seven-year-old girls, who are in general not that excited about greens, will be much more interested. I, in fact, have a hard time [...]
Gluten-Free Bread Winner
I’m not gluten intolerant but when I came across a recipe for a “Life-Changing Bread”, I’ll have to say that I was intrigued. I had my doubts that any one food can change your life, but this bread has come pretty close to doing just that. It would probably be more accurate to say that [...]
Take Me to the Water
Just when I thought I knew about all the secret spots in our area, I recently learned about an extraordinary resource less than 15 miles from my home. For those of us who prefer to drink clean, untreated water, there’s a free artesian well in Lynnwood just moments off of I-5. The water runs continuously [...]
Make Your Own Dyes, Naturally
In the spirit of spring and Easter, I’ve decided to spend time experimenting with some old pastimes that I left by the wayside after becoming tired of hauling equipment around — back and forth from coast to coast. Fresh out of college, instead of heading down a career track, I went off on my own [...]
1st Day of Spring: Go Outside
It’s not officially spring yet but it will be by the time you wake up on Wednesday March 20. The vernal equinox in the Northwest is subtle — no great riots of color or huge swaths of sunshine. In fact, we consider ourselves very lucky when we have a sunny day in March. I’m a [...]
Call Me Granola
According to the Urban Dictionary I easily fit into the description of someone granola — “people who are environmentally aware (flower child, tree-hugger) open-minded, left-winged, socially aware, concerned about wasting resources, usually only buy fair-trade goods and refrain from buying from large corporations, dresses like a hippy, eats natural foods, is usually liberal, but in [...]
10 More Favorite Recipes from Mixed Greens Blog
It’s my turn give you ten of my favorite posts. While Sally chose hers mainly for sentimental reasons, I decided to go for more practical reasons. This is a list of recipes that bring me back to the blog over and over to remind myself how I made something. Don’t ask me why I can [...]
Happy 5th Birthday, Mixed Greens Blog
It’s been five years since Sally and I put up our first post on Mixed Greens and I’m happy to say, we’re still going strong. Stronger than ever actually, with January as our biggest month yet for visitors. And yes, that’s satisfying but what’s even better has been getting to work with my dear friend [...]
I Heart Walnuts
I scored over the holidays and ended up with two big bags of fresh organic walnuts, one shelled the other whole, both incredibly nutritious and delicious. These gifts prompted me not only to dig up our ancient nutcrackers which we’ve previously used mainly for crab but also to do a little research on walnuts. It [...]
Looking Back at 2012
Before looking forward and thinking about what I’d like to accomplish in 2013, I decided to spend a few moments looking back at 2012. I often check our recipes on Mixed Greens to remind myself of how to make a certain dish but this time I wanted to think more about what posts represent an [...]
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