Carolyn is a lifelong gardener and foodie with a sense of humor and a passion for sharing her life experiences. A couple of years ago, she started her Cowlick Cottage Farm blog with the intent of recording her gardening, cooking and travel adventures for her three daughters. In short order, Carolyn’s writing about her life on Cowlick Cottage Farm, along with her photographs, was published in GRIT magazine and in regional publications. With a thriving following on social media numbering in the thousands, Carolyn was named one of nine Proven Winners Garden Gurus, where she writes a monthly post on ornamental gardening in the southeast region. Carolyn’s blog is also featured on the web site of New Leaf Market, the largest natural foods cooperative in North Florida and South Georgia.
Recently, Carolyn was a guest of television host, award-winning designer, gardening and lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith , at his second annual Garden2Blog event. At this prestigious event, 20 influential garden and lifestyle communicators joined Allen at his garden home, Moss Mountain Farm , along with top industry gardening, cooking and lifestyle sponsors, to discuss industry trends and how social media impacts them. Since then, her blog has been featured in P. Allen Smith’s newsletter and in GrowWrite magazine. She has also been named a Contributing Editor of Tallahassee Woman magazine, and she is a garden scout for Southern Living magazine. Carolyn also enjoys writing about some of the top restaurants, resorts and gardens in the southeast region, particularly those that support local farmers and producers.
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Hi Carolyn, I enjoyed listening to you and CL this morning. My favorite Saturday morning routine (winter) tackling an inside chore ( organizing pantry) and listening to CL. A year and a half ago our family moved from Cotuit to Marstons Mills, MA, we downsized inside and upsized outside. Our good luck was to have inherited a sadly neglected garden. I have since reclaimed the asparagus bed and after three configurations created a raised bed design which is both pleasing to look at and practical to work with. I have to get back to my project of the morning and then the studio but I did want to make sure not to miss this opportunity to say Hello. I am a novice gardener and hope to improve in every way the potential of this special place. Thank you for sharing your story and your love of gardening, we are all so fortunate to be able to transfer knowledge in this way. Best Regards, Karen
Hi Karen, Thanks so much for listening and for taking the time to send a note. It sounds like you are well on your way to a beautiful garden! We also downsized inside and upsized outside about 7 years ago, when we moved here to Cowlick Cottage Farm. We’ve never regretted it. Enjoy your Saturday, and I hope you come and visit often.
Carolyn
p.s.We’ve gotten pork from Sweetgrass Dairy in the past. Also, Heavenly Homestead is raising pigs. We got our laying hens from Heavenly Homestead last summer and just loved seeing their farm.
Bradleys pork comes from local farms, but I don’t know anything about the philosophies of those producers. They do offer individual cuts at their store, though.
Ahh, you have been frequenting some of my favorite places! Sweetgrass has some of the best cheeses around. I’ll have to check and see if they carry pork belly. We also got our hens from Heavenly Homestead. They are nice folks and have interesting things happening on their little farm.
Hi, Just found your blog! We moved to a small acreage near Havana a year ago, and seem to stuck in the planning stage with a few fruit trees, chickens and guineas, and grand plans for vegetables and flowers, and maybe a couple of goats. I’m completely smitten with the idea of forest-gardening/ permaculture.
We moved from an old house downtown that needs help (still have the house) — we were working on restoring it before we moved here, and just never finished (is one ever finished?) Is window restoration part of your husband’s home-restoration business?
I like the Charcutepalooza site. Speaking of charcuterie, feral hogs are one of the main reasons we have little in the ground. We are passive pig farmers, trying to harden ourselves for the harvest.
You have a great mini- farm and a beautiful blog. Thanks for the inspiration!Amanda
Hi Amanda! Nice to virtually meet you! It sounds like you have been very busy, between your new place and your place in town. It does take awhile to get your garden planned and set in, doesn’t it?
Is your downtown house in Tallahassee? When you say window restoration, do you mean cleaning up and restoring old windows, or replacing them with new windows?
Charcutepalooza has been a lot of fun so far. I hope you join us.
Thanks for visiting–I’m glad you enjoyed our blog!
Hello, I just found your blog and am enjoying reading about gardens and chickens. Keep up the good work. I’ll look forward to future posts! Kathy
Thanks, Kathy! I am glad you are enjoying our blog.
Hi Carolyn,
I’m the associate editor for Tallahassee Woman magazine and we are doing a feature section on blogs by local women and would like to feature you, and your website/blog in the upcoming Oct/Nov issue. Would you be up for an article interview with me sometime next week, in the morning preferably? Monday morning is ‘out’ for me, but any other morning next week is open.
Let me know if you’d like to be featured and if so, when you might be available for an interview.
I’ve enjoyed reading your comments and learning about your farm. I even love the name of it… Can’t wait to hear the story behind it. Regina Schimpf has highly recommended you by the way.
Warmest Regards,
Heather Thomas
Associate Editor
Tallahassee Woman Magazine LLC
850.893.9624 (office)
850.933.0891 (cell)
heather@talwoman.com