Making food lifestyle adjustments depends on buy-in from you and your loved-ones. Attention to comfort foods is key.
Day 11: 30-Day Meal Plan
Shopping with a plan saves money and curbs food waste. And developing a 30-Day Meal plan can be the first step to creating your weekly shopping plan.
Day 9: Clean Cookstoves
Cooking our food has its complications. What to do? Explore the glories of eating raw, and learn about how you can help women and girls around the world preserve their health while at the stove.
Day 7: Remembering Grandmother
From cherry pie to pigeon peas, berry bushes to fruit trees, there’s something for everyone where perennial staple foods are concerned. Plant yours in a memory poem!
Day 5: 5-Star Cuisine
Learn one of the best-kept secrets of cooking anything and making it taste better. And, write a delicious 5-star poem.
Day 3: Recipe For
Food is such a vital part of our lives. It’s important that it not become fraught with complication. Enjoy this simple strawberry poem and prompt.
Day 2: All Things Colorful
One way to curb climate breakdown is to eat a plant-rich diet. Try it with this 30-day writing challenge. Today: shop for the rainbow.
Day 1: Poetry on the Menu: A 30-Day Writing Challenge
Did you know that one of the top ways to curb climate breakdown is by eating a plant-rich diet? Poetry on the Menu is a 30-day writing challenge that will introduce you to the glories of eating plantfully—with health, good humor, and good taste as your close companions.
Day 30: The Making of a Poet & A Poet’s Makings
Today’s writing prompt is based on an excerpt of “Neruda’s Memoirs” Whenever we face challenges, we have the privilege of framing them in words—words that express our hopes, our losses, our dreams; words that transform our personal vision or the world’s. These words can become a source of sustenance and discovery, for the sometimes long […]
Day 29: Running With
Now that we know what we know about climate breakdown, can we learn something from the deer? Try answering with a poem!
Day 28: Whose Care
Write two short poems about some aspect of earth care—the first part where you are responsible for nothing and the second part where you are responsible for everything. Then…
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 […]
