Healthy partnerships: schools, families and businesses

Pattie Baker has a terrific post about her efforts to change the way food is viewed and promoted in her daughter’s school system. Her school gets extra money the way many schools do, by partnering with an area fast food restaurant for a “fun family night out” with a portion of the proceeds going to [...]

Fruits of my laboring breath

Wheeze… wheeze… I meant to take the camera out this weekend. The yard is spilling over with lush green and I’m sure the light in the afternoons had that gold-filter quality that makes the world feel this close to sepia. But I squinted a lot due to headaches and couldn’t get over feeling sorry for [...]

Weeding out the hope

I’m currently enjoying the benefits of having so little work last fall that I was able to clean up and amend the garden beds to ready them for spring planting. Sure, back then I didn’t think of it as a benefit, and I thought so even less when we ran out of money a couple [...]

In my own backyard

This is the new playground, set up in the spot where the rickety old death-trap once stood. You can see him just slouching over there in the yard all sad and rejected and looking even more dangerous than before now that the new kid’s in town. You know that phrase, NIMBY (not in my backyard) [...]

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