Field notes from The Schoolhouse.

Short reads, working protocols, and the conversations worth paying attention to.

Garden

Before the First Freeze: Getting the Garden In and Keeping It Until Spring

Lubbock's first freeze usually lands before the garden is finished, so this is what to pick, what to cover, what needs curing first, and where to keep it all so it lasts until spring.

2026-10-13

Kitchen

How to Read a Label Without Losing Your Mind

Two rules that make a food label useful in about thirty seconds. What the ingredient order actually tells you, the sugar trick worth knowing, and why I stopped using the scanning apps.

2026-09-05

Old School

What Grandma Got Right (And What She Didn't)

A hundred years of kitchen advice, sorted honestly. What the old ways actually had going for them, where they were plain wrong, and why margarine is the story worth remembering.

2026-09-05