A Little Break from It All
Oh my, this week has been rough. The social and political landscape just keeps getting more adversarial, and humans are being hurt by it. The economy keeps getting more unbalanced. Yes, I have… Continue reading
Category Archive: The big picture
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And a Time to Every Purpose
1 To everything there is a season,A time for every purpose under heaven: 2 A time to be born,And a time to die;A time to plant,And a time to pluck what is planted;3 A time to kill,And a time to heal;A time… Continue reading
Poe-tay-toh, Poe-tah-toe, Oh No!
Just when you thought this pandemic couldn’t make the planet Earth any more sad, now we have a potato shortage. The Washington Post published an article about it recently. Click here to give… Continue reading
Not Just in My Back Yard
Spring is just starting here in central New England. The daffodils are starting to appear. Pear Kun has lots of buds. The rhubarb is racing out of the ground. I am carefully plotting… Continue reading
YES, it Matters
WOW! The Food It Yourself garden of 2020 is producing better than I hoped! With our late frosts and snow in central New England I was convinced cherries and raspberries were a lost… Continue reading
In Memoriam In the Garden
It’s been a rough month here in Food It Yourself land. My mother made a shockingly quick slide from living with cancer to receiving a terminal diagnosis to completing her time on this… Continue reading
Following up
I spent last Thursday and Friday on my Very First Business Trip. I attended a conference related to one of the larger, federally funded, studies we are conducting where I work. One item… Continue reading
Do Right and Feed Everyone
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, this is not a political blog. However, it gets really hard to talk about food, agriculture and nutrition without getting into food, agriculture and nutrition… Continue reading
New to Me- Delectable Delicata!
I like retro stuff. I listen to retro style music. I like to shop at consignment stores that specialize in retro fashions. Recently, a very retro style squash has come back to the… Continue reading
Heart to Hear, Important to Know
More food/nutrition/agriculture science for you, DIYeters. This time it is serious. The American Heart Association issued a press release summarizing research presented at a recent AHA conference. The research analyzed pools of data… Continue reading