We started this blog (named in honor of Susan the Tyrant) in 2010 with zero expectations. We simply wanted to share some of the things we were learning from developing our gardens and foraging for native plants and fungi in our bioregion. Then, in 2013, we got our first ducks and started writing about our experiences with duck keeping. In each of these activities, our actions were informed by in-depth learning, aka reading books, learning from real-world experts, gaining hands-on experience, testing and improving.
In those early years, we never considered the possibility that this website could be an actual business that made money. In fact, we didn’t create a single new article in 2014 since we were tied up with other projects. Then, in 2015, Susan happened to check our Google site traffic and said, “wow, there are a lot of people coming to our website.” Our complete lack of planning and effort had paid off – ha!
