Posted in Agriculture, Coming Home to Eat, Family, General, Links, Local Food Alert, Sustainable Environments on Jan 9th, 2010
While the Chinese will be celebrating 2010 as the Year of the Tiger, we in America have historically had no tigers except those in zoos and circuses. But what we once have had many of—heirloom apples—are now in danger of becoming as rare as tigers are in Asia. Of some 15,000 to 16,000 apples varieties [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Books, Family, General, Links, Local Food Alert, Sustainable Environments on Dec 24th, 2009
The end-of-the-year word is out: one in seven American families is having trouble putting food on the table, just as we try, each in our own way, to celebrate the Holidays. But what does it mean to celebrate and feast on a Holy Day with hunger at the highest levels it has been in years? [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Earth Day, Family, General, Local Food Alert on Dec 16th, 2009
The other night, as I stood in the cold, crisp air to watch the meteor shower of the Geminids falling over a desert mountain, I remembered how, as a child, I loved the story of the three Wise Men from the East following a star until they found where a Semitic child named Yeshua had [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Coming Home to Eat, Family, General, Local Food Alert, Sustainable Environments on Jul 20th, 2009
This last week, I went out into the desert to find an old friend in her trailer-turned-artesanal kitchen. My friend is an Hispanic woman who lost her job after 9/11 in a borderlands community that lost thousands of more jobs during the mortgage fiasco two years ago and the more recent economic downturn. And yet, [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Coming Home to Eat, General, Links, Local Food Alert, Native Seeds / SEARCH, Sustainable Environments on Apr 13th, 2009
Taste Here What You Can’t Just Find Anywhere, And See
For millennia, the Santa Cruz River Valley has been a natural corridor for the seasonal migration of birds as well as other wildlife, and for the cultural diffusion and exchange of foodstuffs. It harbors the northernmost populations of wild peppers known as chiltepines, but the first [...]