I’ve been fooling around with the new google maps feature, my maps, for a few weeks now. I wanted to add this to yesterday’s post but had to talk to a few farmers today before I could complete it. I hope to do this each week from now on, hopefully getting a bit more elaborate [...]
One Local Summer Week #1: Mary’s Potatoes
My day started out with a potato. Well, okay, one potato in a two-pound bag of potatoes that I had toted home from the farmer’s market the day before. It was gorgeous, in fact, I’d been admiring its beauty for the past 8 weeks, when I started buying its brothers from Mary at my local [...]
One Local Summer–pre-post
I signed up to take part in Pocket Farm’s One Local Summer, which starts, officially, today. The idea is to make one meal entirely out of local food once a week, for each week of summer. The idea is a strict one, with the only caveat allowing oil, salt, pepper, spices and herbs. Everything else [...]
summertime evening blues (really)
The sun and the beach are irresistible this time of year, and there’s no doubt I’ll be heading out to play after coming home from work every day this week. But coming in from the languid sunset, I find myself faced with a surprisingly troubling dilemma: If I take the time to prepare a delicious [...]
Get to Know your Local Transit System
Six months ago, had you suggested to me that I ride the bus to get from point A to point B I might have given you a puzzling look, not sure whether you could possibly be serious. Fast forward to today, and you’ll find me happily perched at the bus stop every morning, monthly [...]