The best things require time. Sometimes it’s hard to reconcile.
The Awl-Encompassing Philosophy
The search for a tailor’s awl for an art project becomes a meditation on the intersection of the useful and the beautiful. Buying secondhand isn’t just good for the earth, it’s good for us too.
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.
Announcing “Earth to Poetry”—A Poetic Climate Resource
We wanted to help teachers find a way to integrate climate into their subject areas in a poetic fashion. The result? Earth to Poetry.
Live Beautiful, Free of Plastic
Why consider living free of plastic? Even the dolls know the answer to that question. (Out of the mouths of babes.)
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.
What Can We Do Today?—Use Cloth Not Paper
Make your table more beautiful while easily reducing waste, by choosing cloth napkins over paper.
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.
As the Deer
“We owe it to each other to share what white tail already know” says this poem that can give us a “together” way forward in the climate breakdown challenge.
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.”
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping […]
