Hannah Kirshner
@sweetsnbitters.bsky.social
Author of WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS. Probably spending the rest of my life trying to fix a 100-year-old farmhouse in Ishikawa, Japan. www.hannahkirshner.com
www.mokkei-yamanaka.com
www.mokkei-yamanaka.com
Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?
August 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?
10/10 recommend a chicken on your desk
August 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
10/10 recommend a chicken on your desk
I always seem to have avian companions during large creative projects. Currently, an elderly hen is getting me through writing a book. Once it was a discarded racing pigeon. And I’m often visited by a family of crows (in a different location).
July 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I always seem to have avian companions during large creative projects. Currently, an elderly hen is getting me through writing a book. Once it was a discarded racing pigeon. And I’m often visited by a family of crows (in a different location).
visitor in the snow
February 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
visitor in the snow
it’s snowed every day for a week
February 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
it’s snowed every day for a week
it’s too damn cold in the kitchen so I’m making breakfast on the wood stove
February 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
it’s too damn cold in the kitchen so I’m making breakfast on the wood stove
It’s so special to see my book as a staff pick at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social! Thank you for featuring WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS! 🥰
December 24, 2024 at 4:10 AM
It’s so special to see my book as a staff pick at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social! Thank you for featuring WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS! 🥰
feeling a little shaken up
November 26, 2024 at 2:22 PM
feeling a little shaken up
I stopped by to visit a friend and he invited me to pick some of these nameko to take home for dinner.
November 18, 2024 at 3:43 AM
I stopped by to visit a friend and he invited me to pick some of these nameko to take home for dinner.
A family of large-billed crows have trained me to offer them peanuts every day. This one (mama-crow, I think) is the most trusting. After taking a peanut from my hand she cracks it open right next to me.
November 7, 2024 at 9:13 AM
A family of large-billed crows have trained me to offer them peanuts every day. This one (mama-crow, I think) is the most trusting. After taking a peanut from my hand she cracks it open right next to me.
There is a geta shop in my town. You can pick the wood base and the fabric strap you like, and the shopkeeper puts them together for you.
July 4, 2024 at 11:07 AM
There is a geta shop in my town. You can pick the wood base and the fabric strap you like, and the shopkeeper puts them together for you.
No wonder it feels so sticky in Kaga today
July 1, 2024 at 2:19 PM
No wonder it feels so sticky in Kaga today
vines on the interior and exterior of a glass door in Yamanaka
November 1, 2023 at 10:20 AM
vines on the interior and exterior of a glass door in Yamanaka
vines growing inside my workshop
October 14, 2023 at 2:12 PM
vines growing inside my workshop
Sake, mirin, soy sauce, miso: these are flavors that define Japanese cooking, and they all used to be made in kioke, wooden barrels that can last over a century. Kioke help cultivate a unique microbiome in each brewery that defines that brewery’s flavor. #fermentation
pod.link/proof/episod...
pod.link/proof/episod...
September 24, 2023 at 6:51 PM
Sake, mirin, soy sauce, miso: these are flavors that define Japanese cooking, and they all used to be made in kioke, wooden barrels that can last over a century. Kioke help cultivate a unique microbiome in each brewery that defines that brewery’s flavor. #fermentation
pod.link/proof/episod...
pod.link/proof/episod...
The other one doesn’t snuggle, but likes to be part of things.
September 14, 2023 at 2:11 PM
The other one doesn’t snuggle, but likes to be part of things.
I’ve had pet chickens since I was a child (including a rooster who let me paint his toenails) but I always thought they tolerated my affection. This hen insists on it, tugging at my pants until I pick her up, and melting in my lap.
September 14, 2023 at 1:54 PM
I’ve had pet chickens since I was a child (including a rooster who let me paint his toenails) but I always thought they tolerated my affection. This hen insists on it, tugging at my pants until I pick her up, and melting in my lap.