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DIY Diet Analysis

February 23, 2013

The snowy landscapes of today aren’t fooling me. Spring is on its way, and I’m preparing to trade treadmills for trail runs and garden work as I begin my education coordinator position at Wright-Locke Farm. In doing so, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be healthy, and how so many, regardless […]

Guide to Joining a CSA

February 3, 2013

As a workshare receiving produce for volunteer work at a CSA-based farm in my city, I find it hard to tell anyone to NOT join a CSA, an acronym for Community Supported Agriculture (a business model in which shareholders pay in advance for a produce “share” they receive in installments over the growing season or […]

Foraging with Russ Cohen, Part I: Stinging Nettles

April 7, 2012

Shortly before receiving the delightful news of my garden plot assignment last Sunday, I was out scouring the forest floor of a nearby reservation site for stinging nettles. Let me backtrack. I met Russ about a year and a half ago at a Waltham Fields’ potluck. Without knowing who he was, we struck up a […]

Beautiful Stories of an American Agrarian Renaissance

March 25, 2012

Oh man. This site/org is right up my alley. How do they make money doing this? Or rather, do they make money doing this? I do not know. But I sure hope they keep on doing what they do. Perhaps we need an organization like this in the Northeast… Anyone looking to start a project […]

Time to get growing

March 21, 2012

It’s as if the universe, in all of her majesty, somehow knows that a) it is my birthday (week), b) it is my Spring Break, and c) I’m itching to get down and dirty in the Learning Garden. The weather has been absolutely glorious up here in the Northeast, and I’m trying to take advantage […]

Is Spaceship Earth* trying to tell us something?

March 14, 2012

*I’ve been using this phrase ever since I watched Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox on Netflix several months ago. I recommend it. You’ll definitely laugh, and a part of you will probably cry. It’s fun. And the sound of the phrase brings a Ziggy Stardust David Bowie to mind, which always brightens my day. Love Bowie. […]

Ceci n’est pas une miche de pain

March 4, 2012

I’m not usually one to buy books (grad student budget + Internet + libraries = limited book purchasing), but when swayed, you can bet I’m on Amazon, ordering away. So when associate professor of politics and author of the soon-to-be-released White Bread: A Social History of the Store Bought Loaf Aaron Bobrow-Strain recently discussed how […]

Learning by Color

February 25, 2012

Last spring I stumbled upon this story describing an artist who had made a mural he called a “Nature Matching System.” Tattfoo Tan used the Photoshop eyedropper tool to pull out colors from photographs of produce he had taken at his local farmers market in NYC. What emerged from this simple activity was a vivid […]

Still Hungry?

February 18, 2012

Welp, Peter Menzel strikes again. And this time his work is right here in Beantown. The exhibit entitled “What I Eat: Around the World in 25 Diets” is currently on display at the Museum of Science. It is based off of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, a collaboration with […]

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

February 17, 2012

Halfway into my junior year at Bentley University, I switched my major from marketing to media and culture. It really wasn’t such a big deal because of the way I approached my studies. Thanks to high school AP classes and exams, I managed to be almost a semester ahead entering college, allowing me to enroll […]