March 7 , 2025
Music to Your Ears: Food, Fun, Family
On a misty , chilly November good morning , we find joy . It was other when we headed out to encounter musician and home - schoolers Lisa and Shane Lamb who grow their garden end one weekend at a metre . Fruit trees and veggie beds get together native plants and wildlife habitat , along with a pool border by perennials for pollinators and birds . When Lisa and Shane buy their sign of the zodiac in 2013 , they started plant yield trees and lay out bottom . “ The master destination in our yard are growing food for thought for ourselves , but also kind of creating a wildlife home ground , ” Lisa told us . To attract even more animal with piss , they work withHill Country Water Gardens and Nurseryto build a pool in 2021.Their children Jay and Ella love their big backyard where everyday ’s a nature excursion of find right at home . “ I imagine being outside just inspires creativity . They have some fairy houses they ’ve been building . They ’ve get another fort that they have in the back , ” Shane said . As it got more drizzly and shivery , we really just wanted to curl up with them to translate a book . Enchanted with our storytime , we get a line a raft about edible weed inShanleya ’s Quest!But first , we were treated to miniskirt - concert . As raindrops plopped onto the ceiling , we fall under the spell of Lisa ’s harp . A professional harper , flautist , and composer who also teaches , she has performed as Principal Harpist with the Austin Civic Orchestra since 2010 . Lisa ’s performed with the Austin Symphony , Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony , Austin Opera , Conspirare and many more .
“ I would say with music as player , we ’re always making something that ’s short-lived . It does n’t last unless you ’re doing a transcription . So it ’s kind of squeamish having the garden . It ’s something ocular that you’re able to see and is more permanent , even though it ’s always dislodge , ” she said . Shane ’s acomposer who teaches pianissimo object lesson , music theory , and make-up . They both learn at dwelling in different studios , so parents often expend off children to get word from both of them . “ In the garden I often have medicine in my head . I indite music , so I ’m often kind of brainstorm unexampled ideas or playing around with ideas as I do my workplace , ” he said . Lisa loves teaching children , include her own girl , already composing music of her own . Jay played harmonica for us , but he also write for piano with his dad . Check outShane ’s wonderful YouTube channelto catch the family play . Jay and Ella also know their plants : greenhouse tropicals , evoke bottom veggie , and wild plant to forage . Shane ’s a penis of the Facebook chemical group , Texas Fruiting Plant Growers .
“ I just also like see what the flora look like . I ’m always curious , like , what does a lychee plant seem like ? So I plant the semen and then it grows and I see it , and it ’s a beautiful plant and it ’s got these nice parting , ” Shane said . “ A lot of it , we just go to the Asiatic computer memory and purchase interesting things and plant the seeds , ” Lisa added .
Their prop sits on limestone , so they grow vegetable in elevate bed . Free yard bonus : cool atmospheric condition clammy chickweed for their favourite pesto . The kids confirmed , “ It ’s so yummy!”I’d never hear of achira ( Canna edulis ) , but Jay and Ella could have told me that it ’s an edible root craw . Use the leaves in stir fry , wrap , and salad , or steam clean intellectual nourishment in them as you would with banana tree leaves . With all that limestone they “ own , ” they were happy to have Hill Country dig out the pond ! Excavated stones skirt the berm that Lisa and Shane planted with pollinator favorites . keep to a purple and silverish color palette , they include sage , pinkish helmetflower , lavender , silver-tongued ponyfoot and woolly stemodia . They made certain to place it for sight from the kitchen table . “ It ’s nice watching the wildlife when we ’re eating our meal , ” Lisa mention . “And then for us when we ’re out of doors , we ’re not the character of people to ever really just sit and make relaxed . We ’re always work , work actively , ” she said . “ But it ’s just really nice hearing the sound of H2O and have that passive topographic point while we ’re play in the garden . ”
Shane added , “ It ’s meditative for me . The weeding and the harvest and caring for everything . ”
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