This week I finished up reading The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week) by Robin Mather. This is part memoir, part recipe book, part education in the world of local food. It seems [...]
The same conversation keeps coming up wherever I go lately. More and more people are asking me about sustainable living. They want to live wholesome, healthy, organic lifestyles that are good for the Earth, the future, and their communities. Yet, they don’t know where to begin. If you are looking for a small step to [...]
We all know we should be eating better food—local, organic, fresh. Unfortunately, not all of us have the time to grow our own or even spend a couple hours on Saturday morning perusing the aisles at our local farmer’s market. What’s the alternative for someone looking for a healthy, sustainable choice? The last few years [...]
I just finished reading The Seasons on Henry’s Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm by Terra Brockman. First of all, it should be said that I often dream of life on a farm, so I love to read about farms. Now, in reality, I know that I am terribly pampered [...]
It all started with basil. I kept seeing all these recipes for fresh basil that I wanted to try. Herbs had yet to experience the renaissance they are currently enjoying, so I couldn’t even buy one of those little overpriced plastic clamshells filled with wilting basil at the grocery store. No, if I wanted it [...]
