With ever more passion I invite us all to consider ourselves healers of our food systems, drawing our sources of nourishment closer to home (and away from industrial, processed anywhere food) through buying, cooking and eating local foods, advocating for turning empty lots and patchy …
Last night I had the strangest dream, I never dreamed before. Strange because it was so serious. So reasoned. So not like other dreams where I panic because I didn’t study for the test or because I find my boyfriend romancing my best friend. No, …
I had the joy, privilege and challenge of speaking via webcast to an evolutionary wisdom group Craig Hamilton hosts. I start with the environmental and social constraints of this moment, with how the money and financial systems sit in and fight against these realities and then …
A friend recently told me that her building in lower Manhattan flooded when Hurricane Sandy hit. We tsk-tsked about Climate Change, but when I asked her if she’d move, she shrugged. Apparently not. So many of us shrug. We worry. We write letters. We march. …
Join me as I dig for a place to stand about GMOs (genetically modified organisms) Let’s get underneath the “frankenfood” and “fish in your tomatoes” positioning of the fight against GMOs. GMOs aren’t the devil. Actually, compassionate people, trying to solve real problems for farmers …
Why does dinner have to be so complicated? It used to be you opened the fridge. pulled out some potatoes and meat and vegetables (or opened a can, box or freezer bag), did some stove hocus-pocus and there it was: dinner. Now the choices boggle …
My new fav organization is http://foodtank.org. Danielle Nierenberg and Ellen Gustafson are just birthing it. Please become a Food Tank member – I am. They are combining research and action. I trust their work, and knowing who to trust these days is important. Responding to an …
Wow, this is one cool app. Check out the website after you check out the TedX talk
Patty puts it together the way I do, seeing the local food networks growing, combining, making a locally sourced food system
As soon as I started my 10-mile diet I became a criminal. No, not local marijuana (which now is legal in Washington). Local milk. Selling milk to your neighbor from your cow or goat is against the law. I’m thinking about it today because the …