Posts tagged as: grocery

A Year Of Urban Foraging

January 12th, 2016 - posted under: The Food » Food and Health

Beach picnic with beautiful, vibrant prickly pear, passion fruit, and figs, all gathered on the 7-block walk from my house to the beach. (summer 2014) 1. urban foraging The practice of foraging for free fruits, vegetables, and other “wild food” around the city. Urban foraging is one of my very favorite hobbies, and it’s something [...]

Highlights From The 2015 Natural Products Expo West!

March 23rd, 2015 - posted under: Furthermore » Reviews

How many vegans can you fit in a photo booth? (featuring Conscious Chris, The Vegan Zombie, The [other] Vegan Zombie, Michelle from Vegan Break, Jill from Vegan Cuts, Jackie from Vegan Yak Attack, The Sexy Vegan, Kylie from Fellowship Of The Vegetable, and many more!) I did it! I FINALLY made it to Expo West! [...]

Camping! Eco-Friendly Vegan Camping! With Kids! And Gluten-Free Too! Oh, So Many Ways To Frame This. Part I – Food

August 12th, 2014 - posted under: The Farm » Family

Hot dog roasting MASTER. We did it! We camped, and it was Waits’s first time, and my first time in maybe a decade (seriously), and we didn’t die and we didn’t kill each other and we ate really amazing food and IT WAS SO FUN. We’re already planning our next trip. Working on the car [...]

The Many Lives Of Kale // or // How To Get The Very Most Value Out Of Your Vegetables, Both Nutritionally and Financially

October 22nd, 2013 - posted under: The Food » Food and Health

I am not a wasteful person. I would say, in fact, that I am pretty much the antithesis of a wasteful person. I have always been this way – being raised by my single mother to appreciate and to conserve, compounded by a tendency towards thriftiness that’s totally inherent. I consider this a gift, as [...]

More Photos From The Farmer’s Market, Autumn 2011

October 16th, 2011 - posted under: The Food » Food and Health

Wild plums! A few Sundays back I rounded out the first MoFo weekend with a few snapshots from the Portland Farmer’s Market. This precious weekly ritual, our Saturday morning market, is one of my greatest pleasures. Perhaps these new photos will inspire you, the way that my market always inspires me. Fall is such an [...]