A Poem about Ending Hunger and Creating Happiness
In the wee morning hours, I saw a peculiar site,
A sour frowning girl coming out of the night.
She pulled her belongings on a blue vinyl sled
while a vinegar scowl covered her face and her head.
All posts in category Community Supported Agriculture
The Vinegar Girl
Posted by Tammy on April 27, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/04/27/the-vinegar-girl/
A Terroir-ist’s Manifesto
Terroir (French pronunciation: [tɛʁwaʁ] from terre, “land”) is the set of special characteristics that the geography, geology and climate of a certain place, interacting with the plant’s genetics, express in agricultural products such as wine, coffee, chocolate, tomatoes, heritage wheat, cannabis, and tea.
I begin today’s post with this Wikipedia interpretation so that no speedy reader inadvertently assumes that I’m commenting on terrorism.
Occasionally the tapestry of life weaves in coincidental ways and when it does, it can spark delight. Such was the case on Saturday.
My Food Hero and Poet – Gary Nabhan
Posted by Tammy on April 25, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/04/25/a-terroir-ists-manifesto/
Haiku for Dinner
We all have to make choices and frankly, offering choices is a trademark of my parenting style. So, when I told my children that they had a choice of doing a family Harlem shake or writing dinnertime haiku, each sharpened their pencil.
What Goes Best with Haiku?
Posted by Tammy on April 18, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/04/18/haiku-for-dinner/
Poetry at the Farmers’ Market
“A poem is the record of a discovery, either the discovery of something in the world, or within one’s self, or perhaps the discovery of something through the juxtaposition of sounds and sense within our language. Our job as poets is to set down the record of those discoveries in such a way that our readers will make the discoveries theirs and will delight in them.” – Former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
Farmers’ Market
Posted by Tammy on April 12, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/04/12/poetry-at-the-farmers-market/
Dinner and a Poem
Beans and Rice
Posted by Tammy on April 7, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/04/07/dinner-and-a-poem/
Local Food Focus – Hopi Blue Corn
The Blue Corn Maiden
A Hopi Legend
The Blue Corn Maiden is said to be the most beautiful of the corn maiden sisters. The people loved her very much and they loved the blue corn that she brought to them all year long. Because of this, they felt peace and happiness when she was amongst them.
Hopi Blue Corn
Posted by Tammy on March 21, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/03/21/local-food-focus-hopi-blue-corn/
Staking Out the Steak Out
“I say,those people will always be thirsty on those hot stakeoutswithout a water fountain in sight.”
Coordinated surveillance of a location is referred to as a stakeout. It’s generally performed covertly in order to collect data about a criminal, a celebrity, or their activity. I could wax on about my own quiet neighborhood erupting with suspicion when tight-lipped Ray-ban-clad drivers were parked on our corner for days.
Dillinger Stake Out Plan at the Biograph Theater – FBI file
Posted by Tammy on March 14, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/03/14/roasted-cabbage-steaks/
Head by Head
A group of people from my online writing class decided to eliminate the anonymity of the electronic blackboard and have a Saturday meet up. “Carry a copy of Bird by Bird,” was the instruction given so that we’d recognize each other. It worked and that book will always remain on my writer’s shelf. The title comes from a story eloquently told by Anne LaMott about her brother’s struggle with a homework assignment and her father’s enduring advice that he tackle the avian research report by writing about one bird at a time.
Carry a copy so that I will recognize you
Posted by Tammy on February 24, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/02/24/seven-ways-to-use-up-lettuce/
Weekend Reading – Forks Over Knives Companion
Posted by Tammy on February 23, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/02/23/weekend-reading-forks-over-knives-companion/
Feeling Presidential
There was a time when my oldest son knew every last detail about the U.S. Presidents. He was 6 years old and knowing this trivia was his passion; their pets, their kids, their hobbies, the shortest in stature, the heaviest, the assassinated, the bachelor.
President’s Day
Posted by Tammy on February 18, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/02/18/celebrating-presidents-da/
Tammy
A wife, a mom, an executive, a certified leadership coach and a breast cancer survivor. I love learning and I love to write and I'm often fascinated with the life lessons that come from my kitchen. Focusing on community-based Placemaking is the way that I work towards creating a healthier planet.
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