Almost two years ago, I let the wild blackberry brambles keep growing and imagined one day there would be blackberries, not knowing whether you or I would survive to see them. And now, this weekend as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 surges around the world, I planted potatoes, two months early but it’s unseasonably warm,…
Tag: pandemic
Goodbye to “Mr. Radish” (a Note to My Neighbors, Anywhere in the World)
This is a note to my neighbors, for whom I’ve revitalized a Sharing Garden at the beginning of the pandemic on the corner of the property my husband and I steward in an HOA-governed suburban subdivision in the United States of America. I’d like to encourage you to start a Sharing Garden in your neighborhood…
Art Gallery!
We’re all missing things and trying to find our way forward. Many of us are trying to see how we can transcend limitations and create new realities. Four big things I miss during this pandemic are hugs, abundant public fruit, public art, and strangers*. Here’s how I’m addressing that, including my latest excitement about art:…
Isn’t It Time?
A least one shelf was bare in every aisle of the Whole Foods supermarket where I shopped yesterday. Every single store, in every single community, is feeling the pinch from this pandemic as just-in-time inventory gets hit by logistics breakdowns. If you are ready to take at least a little bit of control of…
Mid-Wash
I ride my bike to drop off a copy of my book, Food for My Daughters, to a friend who had given hers away years ago and wanted to reread it (as it’s increasingly relevant again now). She lives by the elementary school that her children and mine attended, and I swing by there afterwards….
Food for My Daughters (and you) 