Living In Place

With Dad, New Year's Eve, c. 2014. “Did I ever tell you about the day after you were born?” I asked my youngest as we headed out to lunch. “I was so euphoric. I knew all my...

Aside from being both quick and delicious, I love that Soup of White Beans and Winter Greens has a fairly low carbon footprint, especially now that I can grow greens in my...

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....

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...

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,...

How to Prowl for an Owl, Make Snail Slime, and Catch a Frog bare-handed. Nature as a Foreign Land Like many suburban-raised kids, I grew up as if Nature was a foreign land....