Since the summer is winding down and I’m healing from a knee injury, I’ve found myself with some unplanned free time. One project that I have in mind is to better understand our current food policy landscape. In my initial research I came across an interesting infographic that inspired today’s post – Plant the Plate. I have always voted but I had not made a phone call, attended a protest, or visited elected officials offices until recently. It has been…
Seattle is a fruit-filled city. City parks feature old orchards and fruit trees line the sidewalks in many neighborhoods. I’m a huge fan of edible plants in public spaces. But it is painful to witness so much good fruit dropping to the ground. I have to exercise a lot of self-restraint when the tree is on someone else’s property and a little internal voice says, “Save the fruit!”. This is why I love the vision of City Fruit, an organization…
This week felt like fall. We got some rain, the smoke cleared, and there was a crispness to our sunny days. We also planted many of our winter transplants in the p-patch at just (we hope!) the right time – about 9 weeks before the Persephone Days. The story goes that Persephone was kidnapped by Hades, god of the underworld. Persephone’s mother, Demeter, was so distraught that she turned the Earth barren, creating winter. Zeus brokered a deal to split…