Stuck at home? Reduce food waste and make the most of your vegetable scraps by cooking homemade vegetable broth to add to soups, stews, or casseroles. You can even make rice with vegetable stock instead of water!
Day 6: Eating From Your Yard
There’s an abundance of beautiful, free, nutritious food, just outside the door. Step out and see?
Day 4: Quick Lunch Date
I have found, over the years, that having some simple go-to foods is important for keeping on with a healthy food lifestyle.
From Film to Fable, On the Hill Above the Pond
What has film trailer editing got to do with the story of a farm? More than you might guess. Especially if you are Tom Deacon of Fable Foods.
Violet Afternoons With My Girl, in Sun and Rain
Two violet afternoons become a surprisingly sweet moment in cooking (and eating). It all started when a daughter went out into the day.
What Can We Do Today?—Plant a Tree Without Lifting a Shovel
We don’t need to change a thing, except our search engine, to start winning the climate game by just doing what we do every day anyway.
Day 27: Season
Today’s writing prompt is based on the poem Under Heaven In “Under Heaven,” the poet proposes that “appetite has a season,” and she reminds us that a pomegranate “takes the careful cultivation of months” to come to fullness. Using the specificity and passion of a “true connoisseur,” write a poem about a fruit or vegetable […]
Under Heaven
Eating a pomegranate before its time reminds us, as this poem says, that “appetite has a season.”
Day 18: Every Morning
Today’s writing prompt is based on the poem Li Po In “Li Po,” the poem looks back in history to a poet who sometimes wrote about tea. It then pairs the narrator of the poem with Li Po, saying “every morning I am Li Po.” Humankind has a long history with agriculture or the harvesting […]
Li Po
A poem about being a poet, based on Li Po and how he knew “the tea bushes flush with leaves, / sweet scent rising / from snow-petaled earth…”
The earth’s economy
“Just when I thought the day had nothing left to give,” says the poet. And then the earth’s economy gives, beginning with an impossibly cool and beautiful garden cucumber.
