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Losing Ourselves on the Side of the Street
May 31, 2015 “If a panhandler comes near you and you are fearful, call the police.” The statement is not exact but it is close to what I’ve heard on the radio once a week for a number of months. I don’t so much find this statement bad as I do evil. Built into such…
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GMO And Cardboard Food
May 24, 2015 Folks in Jackson County, Oregon are having a fit. The people of Jackson County voted last fall to ban GMO (genetically modified organism) crops. Alfalfa growers are ticked off. Lawsuits are filed. Having planted “Roundup Ready” alfalfa, a perennial plant that is productive for years, GMO farmers claim a potential devastating income…
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A Practice Of Reverence, Honor, And Spirit
May 17, 2015 Knowing food is a spiritual practice. Paying close attention to food is living a practice of knowing creation. To know food is to move beyond myopic buying of food with little thought of its origin: the people involved in its growing, the weather that supports its growth, the community of production, or…
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A Kitchen of Culture, Life, And Conversation
May 10, 2015 The kitchen is a favorite room of mine. Hard to imagine it isn’t everyone’s. Good food, good company, and good talk roll over the counter top and fill the house. Not a big room, but open with movement between kitchen and dining is hardly noticeable. Our home is a back door home.…
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A Landscape of Dented Buckets and Grain Sacks
May 03, 2015 We were driving through the Nova Scotia countryside in November taking in farms and farming practices. The practices and work we saw was much like the work of small farmers back home. Most farms were multi-crop in addition to dairy, beef, goats, or sheep. The workers of the land told a story…
Chewing the Cud 