It’s been seven months since I last posted, by far the longest time I’ve gone without writing since I started blogging in 2013. For now at least I don’t want to write about… Continue reading
Our last activity before leaving southern Louisiana was a visit to Jefferson Island, another of the salt dome “islands” that rise above the southwestern delta country. Like Avery Island where we’d visited the… Continue reading
Louisiana is undoubtedly a unique place; the Acadian, French, Native, and Western African influences on culture, food, and architecture combined with the distinctive coastal marshes and swamps that dominate the delta make the… Continue reading
Sometime in the 1860s a Mr. Edmund McIlhenny of Avery Island, Louisiana acquired some capsicum frutescens, commonly known as Tabasco peppers, planted and harvested them near his home, aged their pulp in white… Continue reading
With our build in La Grange finished it was definitely time to head north and escape the heat and humidity. Except that we had decided months ago that we’d like to stop in… Continue reading
I loved the 2 weeks we spent working with Lafayette Habitat for Humanity. To begin with everyone at the affiliate was incredibly welcome and accomodating. Joelle and Sam from the office got us… Continue reading
After finishing our build with Bayou Area Habitat we headed up the road for our next 2 week build in Lafayette. We had the weekend off before we started building however so we… Continue reading
Our 2 weeks at Bayou Area Habitat for Humanity was spent rehabbing existing Habitat houses in order to prepare them for re-sale to new partner families. Though Tom had been here twice in… Continue reading
We arrived in Louisiana 6 days before our build was scheduled in order to do some typical tourist stuff. I’d never been in bayou country or seen the city of New Orleans so… Continue reading
A few weeks back I travelled to Louisiana for a few days with Jonathan, Laura, and Baby Cypress. We briefly visited their old farm, Real Nature, the afternoon we arrived and I got… Continue reading
