The Little Old Lady Who Could, and Did, and Does.

At 74 I traded a quiet American retirement for a 170-year-old stone maison de ville in Clugnat, Creuse — bought for €23,000, restoring with my own hands, smack dab in the middle of France.
I'm Carolyn Smith-Kizer, Clinical Herbalist with 20+ years experience — and this village keeps showing me things I wasn't looking for.
🌿 History Detective — following the trails written into the stones, rivers, and objects of rural France
🌿 The Renovation — restoring a house that was built to last four hundred years
🌿 The Garden — rooted in Charlemagne's Capitulare de Villis
🌿 The Kitchen — wood-fired range cooking and food history
🌿 Reading English — for those who want to hear the language the way it was meant to sound
🌿Associate Member, American Herbalists Guild AHG
This place transmits rather than trashes. So do I.
♥ Making the old ways new again.