From my workward walks

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Rhetoric

I heart Katherine Gustafson. She’s a regular writer at change.org’s Sustainable Food blog. Her style and topics get me fired up every time. Yesterday she posted an article on an essay by a guy named Richard Keller, who is editor of a trade magazine called AgProfessional (“a magazine dedicated to serving ag retailers, crop consultants, [...]

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Summertime, and the livin’s easy…

I’m being seduced by summer. In spite of my complaints of sweaty walks to the metro station and the muggy haze over the city, I find warm nights on the balcony irresistible. The Monkey bought a wonderful bistro table and chairs, so we can eat dinner there, and drink wine in the dusk that lingers [...]

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Personal Food: Jeff’s story

Jeff is a good friend whom I met when we worked together at Capital City Public Charter School. He and his partner Bruce live in a charming Cape Cod which they’re restoring, in Takoma Park, just the other side of the District boundary. He writes about their little urban homestead at The Prolific Sunchoke. He [...]

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Kids showcase their new-found garden knowledge

Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, DC, is one of the most amazing schools I’ve ever been privileged to know. Earlier this week the PreK and Kindergarten students presented their semester of work on plants and nutrition – a study that included regular work in a City Blossoms community garden down the street from [...]

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Circular systems and making dirt

One thing (of the many) that I liked about the film Food, Inc. was the empowering ending – a very appealing and moving set of suggestions, ways I can change my habits to improve my own food and affect change to the entire food system. One of those recommendations is to eat more locally – [...]

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An Unexpected Inheritance, revisited

When I was 23 or so, and living in my first home – a trailer with a nice addition and deck on 2 acres of Virginia countryside – I planted a garden.  In a fit of self-awareness centered on the gardening, I wrote an essay (this was the days before I knew anything about blogging; [...]

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