The Batavian endive I’m growing in the greenhouse is not the pale-leafed head shaped like a torpedo, but something more akin to leafy escarole, which would be a great substitute. So would kale, collards or chard. My recipe for a soup of White Beans and Winter Greens is adapted from Marcella Hazan’s recipe for Zuppa […]
Greenhouse Greens
The ground is frozen, and the gardens put to bed, but I’m still harvesting greens and herbs from the greenhouse. A greenhouse was never part of the plan. A wood-fired pizza oven was. But Tim came home from the clinic with a story about a patient who built a greenhouse during lockdown, a greenhouse big […]
Writing to the Light, Again.
I like to start my day in the dark. It’s quiet time, when I practice a morning meditation with my pen. There’s something safe about these pre-dawn hours, before the world wakes, a time when the phone doesn’t ring, when it’s too early to engage in the world. The dark envelops me. When I raise […]
The Animal Adventurer’s Guide
Nature as a Foreign Land Like many suburban-raised kids, I grew up as if Nature was a foreign land. Except for a small patch of front lawn, which we were supposed to stay off, and a scrappy backyard where we had a sandbox and jungle gym, “outside” was mostly paved. We played running bases on […]
Moving By Muscle
Riding the rail trails is one of the ways I enjoy moving by muscle. Moving by muscle is what I do for recreation and exercise: hiking through the woods, rowing on the river, and biking on the rail trails. There’s only foot traffic on hiking trails, few motorboats are on the river as early as […]
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