Sabine Harvey, Master Gardener coordinator and gardener extraordinaire, submitted the Chestertown Middle School Grow It Eat It garden she spearheaded with the kids this year to Mother Earth News’s Fabulous Food Garden contest. The garden, among about 100 (if memory serves) submitted to the contest, was grown behind the school, and provided not only someContinue reading “Chestertown Middle School Wins Special Consideration”
Author Archives: Nancy Taylor Robson
Slow Money: Like Buy Local But Invested
“Slow Money” is the name for a movement started by socially conscious investing pioneer and author, Woody Tasch. …Slow Money is dedicated to connecting investors to their local economies by marshaling financial resources to invest in small food enterprises and local food systems. Tasch’s vision for Slow Money, now not just a concept but alsoContinue reading “Slow Money: Like Buy Local But Invested”
A Little Something for the Holidays
It’s just not Christmas until I hear the Hallelujah chorus by Georg Frideric Handel. The chorus, Handel’s musical tribute to the Messiah, was performed for the first time at Easter, 1742, not Christmas. No matter. It’s a moving reminder of what the Christian portion of this holiday season is actually meant to be about. Seeing it inContinue reading “A Little Something for the Holidays”
Leftover Days That Follow
While I love the meal of Turkey Day – mash, gravy stuffing, what’s not to love? – I actually like the days that follow more. The meal itself, fairly hidebound in tradition, offers limited scope for creativity, but the day after, you can have at it with abandon. It’s like the difference between a formalContinue reading “Leftover Days That Follow”
Giving Thanks on Turkey Day
Complaining about the cooking to be done for Thanksgiving has gotten to be something of a national pastime; more and more blogs and advice columns offer commiseration larded with helpful hints on ways to circumvent what they consider the ‘worst’ of it. And indeed, if I had a family who sprawled on the sofa whileContinue reading “Giving Thanks on Turkey Day”
Uuuuuummmm, Cauliflower…..
I always figure if you have cauliflower in the frig, you’ve got dinner. I realize not everyone sees it that way. I ran into a friend at the Chestertown farmers’ market last week. I was carrying a cauliflower the size of a bowling ball that I’d bought from Lockbriar Farms — a great find from myContinue reading “Uuuuuummmm, Cauliflower…..”
Thanksgiving Cookpamphlet for the Uninspired
Jean Sanders, erstwhile illustrator and art director for my former gigs at the Chestertown Spy and Talbot Spy, has put together some of my Sunday Cooking essays and recipes into a cook pamphlet (which is not large enough to be a cookbook, but it’s fun and definitely worth your time and available right now for theContinue reading “Thanksgiving Cookpamphlet for the Uninspired”
Bee Cafeteria
THIS is why you plant natives. Even if you didn’t appreciate the fact that native plants are a huge chunk of a healthy, well-oiled ecology, you’d let the natives that spring up uninvited stay. Because of the magic of the wildlife. Native plants bring in all those things you see on the Discovery channel, butContinue reading “Bee Cafeteria”
Sunday Cooking Returns!
Since leaving the Chestertown Spy only last week, I’ve decided I still need to write about cooking, food, gardening, and environment — to say nothing of the wider world and the art of living. So, I’m starting up Sunday Cooking again. It will begin next week — this week is temporary retirement — and I’llContinue reading “Sunday Cooking Returns!”
Nancy Taylor Robson 