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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 […]

Small Batch Apple Butter

January 17, 2013

Oh, hey you. I know it’s been several weeks since I’ve written out a recipe. Picking up my food pantry coordinator job is partially to blame (in the BEST of ways) for this, but the bigger reason is that… I’ve got nothing. Right now, at least. All food growing and preservation has come to a […]

Onward We Go

December 27, 2012

Well, we made it to the end of 2012, folks. No zombies or other apocalyptic beings to be tamed, just copious amounts of buttery cookies, smoked and slow-cooked meats, stinky cheeses, red wine… and the widening waistlines that follow. I can deal with those things. With pleasure. The end of the year has brought about […]

Two Day Strawberry Jam (with a side of contemplation)

June 18, 2012

First, the contemplation: *** It’s been over two and a half years since I took anything even close to a vacation. Sure, I’ve had days off from jobs and academic breaks, but I would hardly say any of those occasions qualify as a true “break” from reality, or at the very least, from my day-to-day, […]

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 […]

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 […]