food & garden
Get a free tree at Bernheim Forest
If you’re working on your yard this spring, consider planting a tree. There are lots of reasons for planting trees, and one of the most compelling is that trees help us breathe by producing oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide. They also provide shade, form windbreaks and help prevent erosion.
In honor of Arbor Day, Bernheim Forest… »
Mean, green and lean for the holidays
BABY STEPS
By KIMBERLY ANDERSON
Assistant Editor
Kimberly’s blog focuses on a single objective each month intended to help her and her readers take baby steps toward better living in the spirit of New Southerner. You can keep up with her progress by… »
Pushcart Prize nominees announced
It’s with great pleasure that we nominate the following works from New Southerner for the Pushcart Prize:
“Annunciation” by Wanda Fries (poetry)
“My Black Dog” by Wanda Fries (poetry)
“Something in the Wash” by Angela Jackson-Brown (fiction)
“The Beauregard Group” by Leslie Whatley (fiction)
“How to Save 89 Cents” by Michele Niesen (nonfiction)
“Leanin’ Back”… »
Baby Step 3: Slow down while eating; it’s a spoon, not a shovel!
BABY STEPS
By KIMBERLY ANDERSON
Assistant Editor
Kimberly’s blog focuses on a single objective each month intended to help her and her readers take baby steps toward better living in the spirit of New Southerner. You can keep up with her progress by checking her weekly blog, Baby Steps…. »
Baby Step 2: Turn a vice into a virtue
BABY STEPS
By KIMBERLY ANDERSON
Assistant Editor
Kimberly’s blog focuses on a single objective each month intended to help her and her readers take baby steps toward better living in the spirit of New Southerner. You can keep up with her progress by checking her weekly blog, Baby Steps. She welcomes reader … »
‘Rethinkers’ turn Katrina tragedy into positive change
By BOBBI BUCHANAN
Take one of the most devastating disasters in American history, add a medley of motivated students, and what do you get?
The Rethinkers. That’s the moniker adopted by a group of students who set out to rethink and rebuild New Orleans schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
It started in 2006,… »
Cast your vote for jobs, fresh food in Louisville
By SARAH FRITSCHNER
Breaking New Grounds, a Louisville nonprofit that works to bring jobs and fresh food to Louisville’s food desert, is in the running for a $250,000 grant in the Neighborhood category of the Pepsi Refresh Project.
Breaking New Grounds composts municipal waste from Heine Brothers’ Coffee shops, Brown-Forman distillery and Limbwalker Tree Service to create… »
Baby Step 1: Buy whole foods instead of processed foods
BABY STEPS
By KIMBERLY ANDERSON
Assistant Editor
Kimberly’s blog focuses on a single objective each month intended to help her and her readers take baby steps toward better living in the spirit of New Southerner. You can keep up with her progress by checking her weekly blog, Baby Steps. She welcomes reader response and hopes you’ll… »
My cooking is what I call creative
NONFICTION
By BEEBE BARKSDALE-BRUNER
My cooking talent is what I call creative, never fixing anything the same way twice. If I have a recipe in front of me, I don’t follow it. I get ideas on shortcuts. I’ve been that way all my life. My first grade teacher, Miss Redwine, noticed I was loath to listen and… »
Family Farm Day lets you dig in
By CAROL GUNDERSEN
As regular patrons of their local farmers market, Elizabeth Wood and her family enjoy eating fresh food grown close to home. On a recent Saturday they went right to the source, munching vegetables and exploring the fields of a local farm as part of the Food Literacy Project’s Family Farm Day program.
Family Farm… »
