Archive for the "Eating in Place (local food)" Category

Reciprocity: writing and farming in Vermont

By Hanna Wheeler   Julia Shipley grows 50 percent of her diet in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Photo by Hanna Wheeler If chores were a car trip, instead of a process from one end of the barn to another, from full udder to empty, we’d be in Montreal by the time the milked cows were let [...]

Whole Terrain invites you to Fung*asm

  Fung*asm! Celebrate mycology at this month’s Science Soiree Photo courtesy Wichland Woods Join us 7 pm Thursday for a magical mystery tour of mushrooms with David Wichland. With hundreds of hours of personal research, David now teaches educational workshops throughout New England and sells wild-foraged, locally grown and exotic mushrooms and related products. Get [...]

Growing seeds, growing business, growing community: a profile of Tom Stearns

By Hanna Wheeler High Mowing Seeds founder and president Tom Stearns knew from a young age that he wanted to work with the earth for a living. “I always said I wanted to be a farmer or a geologist…not that I knew what either of them meant,” he said, laughing.   Stearns grew up in [...]

Sweet and saucy: Whole Terrain editor writes about her baking life

Photo courtesy stock.xchng “Toss it in the backyard,” my mother would say while scooping the excess flour off the table into my hands. “Return it to Her.” She would hold the door for me as I opened my palms to the sky and watched the white powder fly into the wind. The “Her” she was [...]

A city’s local food revolution: Whole Terrain interviews Brad Masi

By Hanna Wheeler When you think of Cleveland, what comes to mind? The industrial city whose polluted river caught on fire? The undesirable city recently rejected by local hero, LeBron James? The dumpy, depressing city featured in American Splendor by dark comic, Harvey Pekar? The cursed city where not one of the football, baseball, or [...]