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ESSAY
All Things Wild and Wonderful:
How a foraged mountain food connected two children
Essay and photos by KAREN DILL
In April, the wild things emerge: Bears crawl from their dens; baby wolves are born while their parents howl at the moon; and mysteriously tender green shoots climb bravely from the ground. To an unsuspecting eye, the tiny foliage may resemble weeds, but to my mountain-bred father, they were supper.
My… »
The First Feast of Spring
By CONNIE FOSS
My first memory of eating creamed asparagus on toast goes way back to a Sunday after Easter when I was about 4 years old. I remember bouncing into the kitchen and immediately stopping short, accosted by the aromas of burnt toast and hard-boiled eggs. But mixed with those unsavory odors was the anticipation… »
Honesty
POETRY
By KATE BUCKLEY
There’s an honesty to planting,
in saying to seeds,
here’s what I want from you:
grow.
Grow until your heads touch
the tallest slat on the tumbledown wall
and then bud. Break open your heads
and flower, and when that’s done,
fruit.
In return, I will give you
meal, minerals, the dung of cloven
animals. I will take measure
of your soil and add what… »
