Cover crops are a micro-farmer’s best friend, and one of my favorite categories for cover crops are annual flowers. Any type of hardy and/or weedy annual flower can make a good pollinator, add color to your vegetable garden during the shoulder seasons, and help condition the soil in preparation for planting fussier things like eggplants or lettuce.

In December 2005, we moved into a tiny house with a big yard in the Delridge neighborhood of West Seattle. We had moved from a little studio apartment and warehouse space on West Marginal. Before that, we lived in a loft overlooking the Secluded Alley Works Gallery space in the Central District and before that, a horse farm in Snohomish. We were used to unconventional living spaces.

It all begins with an idea.