The Brattleboro Farmers’ Market is a little over an hour’s drive from our place in northwestern MA, but, much to my surprise, it’s only a mere 45 miles — albeit on twisting country roads and over the beautiful Green Mountains. (Why isn’t Vermont Monts Verts, I always wonder…) Well within the 100-mile diet we try [...]
On Saturday morning I went out for my usual early-morning walk with Bix, down by the riverside. It was just after eight, but instead of feeling bleary-eyed, I was alert, almost tingling. I watched the river rush past the sandy shore and saw, right in front of me, the unfurling fronds of ferns. Just weeks [...]
A sure sign of spring in New York City is the arrival of fiddlehead ferns and ramps in the Union Square Greenmarket. Through the wet, gray winter I’d pined for those first green leaves’ arrival, and nearly leaped for joy when I finally spotted them some late April morning on the way to my old [...]
One thing I think that would be — I know would be very creative policy is if we — is if we would buy food from local farmers as a way to help deal with scarcity, but also as a way to put in place an infrastructure so that nations can be self-sustaining and self-supporting. [...]
April 29, 2008 – 12:47 PM
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