Bon Appetit!

Ashley and Joel Selby are the creative minds (and hands) behind Rational Jar of Honey, the culinary side of their studio, This Paper Ship. They live in a historic apartment in downtown Greensboro and consider themselves graphic designer-farmers, combining technology and nature in their every day lives.

What they lack in culinary education, they make up for by love of food, creativity, design skills, and (not to mention) hundreds of hours spent watching Food Network and poring over their cookbook library. They are inspired by the recent explosion of awesome food blogs and want to bring their own style and tastes to the mix.

Here's to good eating!

Garden Updates

Saturday, April 10, 2010

The last couple of weeks have been insane for us as a studio, but we’ve still somehow managed to take advantage of suddenly warm temperatures in the NC Piedmont and work on our early Spring 2010 garden! We’ve continued to monitor our container radishes, strawberry, carrots, and broccoli rabe, as well as plant container tomatoes, eggplant, and bell peppers. We also finished preparing the soil in the flowerbed out front and planted a good variety of veggies and flowers, some that we picked up pre-started from the gigantic NC State Piedmont Farmers’ Market out on Rt. 40. And, of course, we can’t stop planting herbs.

Sprouting radishes in a container (earlier this spring).

Container lettuce mix (our gram bought for us in New Bern, NC).

Potted Lavender (because it takes forever to flower and we don’t want to leave it behind if we move).

Potted mint (growing rapidly).

Ornamental pepper in a tea pot from Ashley’s wedding bouquet. Crazy! If this thing survives we’ll have an heirloom wedding flower from a Shepherdstown, WV farmer!