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How Do Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow?
Here’s some unsolicited advice. Begin to seriously practice being a locavore – and encourage your friends to do the same. The reason: Our global food system faces grave challenges, both near-term and long-term. Since the last time I wrote about…
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It’s Spring, and Planting Season for Our Wheat
WARNING: This blog contains gluten. We’re on the cusp of spring growing season. The snow has melted, and the frozen ground below is thawing. It’s the time of year when the farmers I knew as a youth were itching to…
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The Future of Farming
When you sit down to your Thanksgiving dinner, I hope you will consider saying a big “thank you” to the farmers and ranchers responsible for your meal. As Americans, we have a huge gap in understanding what’s happening out there…
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Future Food Sources: Reaping What We Sow
Here north of Boston, July was not a good month for vegetable gardens. Record rainfall. Cold temperatures. And a bumper crop of weeds. As for the vegetables, the tomatoes were not ripening as they should, and others were slow to…
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Gatherings 2.0: What Have We Learned in the Past Year?
After a year of rather lonely singular dinners, we’re finally easing back into dinner party mode, and I couldn’t be happier. But what have we learned over the past year, and how will those dinners that we organize change? People…
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My Mom’s Favorites from a Depression-Era Childhood
I’ve recently written about the foods that I missed from my childhood, and that led me to think about other people and other times. My 95-year-old mother, Ginny Kettleson, was an obvious choice. That’s Mom on her wedding day in…
