My Favorite Room: Erin Wade's First Home Garden--and Go-to Space
- Aug 31, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 5
On her 10-acre Nambé property, chef-farmer-restaurateur Erin Wade has a special attachment to her first home garden. This garden—which sustainably contributes ingredients for her restaurant Vinaigrette—is an outdoor addition to her 300-year-old adobe fixer-upper. When she’s here, “I feel like I’m almost in another world, even though it’s just a couple of steps down from my house,” she comments. A terraced garden, it is about three-quarters of an acre. It feels like a room since it’s bounded by latilla fencing and an adobe retaining wall. “It’s where I started. It feels very calming and peaceful, and like I’m completely removed from all the craziness that restaurants can sometimes be. It feels back to basics. It’s very easy to over-complicate life and restaurants and business, and one of the things I say to myself is: Grow food, make food. Grow food, make food. Like a mantra,” Wade proposes. “It’s really checking in with the deeper things that motivate me.”