Southern Comfort Food: Old Fashioned Tea Cakes
The storied history of the Southern Tea Cake ties us to those generations who made them before us.
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Returning to the Ginger Root
As another cold and flu season approaches, I find myself thinking less about the latest headlines and more about the quiet wisdom that once filled the kitchen pantries of our grandmothers. Long before pharmacy aisles stretched for hundreds of feet, families relied on the ordinary gifts of the garden and the pantry. They knew which
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Returning Home to Local Food
There are moments in history that quietly remind us of things we should never have forgotten. For many Americans, the past several years have been one of those moments. Empty grocery shelves, interrupted supply chains, and rising food costs caused many people to ask questions that had long been overlooked. Where does our food come
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The Little Garden in Front of the Shelter
Ever curious about the creative ways people grow food wherever they find a patch of ground, I found myself doing a double-take as I drove through Clarksville this week. A large white house caught my attention—not because of the house itself, but because of the tiny, meticulously tended garden tucked into the front yard between
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Don’t Miss the Harvest
Once I committed to eating fresh, local food in season, I began to notice something I had overlooked for years. The calendar wasn’t only measured in months. It was measured in strawberries, peaches, tomatoes, figs, pumpkins, and apples. Each one arrived with little fanfare, stayed only a short while, and quietly disappeared until the following
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Regenerative Gardening
For the past year or so, I have been slowly wading into the world of permaculture—a phrase that simply means permanent agriculture. I’m still very much a student, learning as I go, but my hope has always been to create a garden that grows healthier with each passing season rather than demanding more from me or
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The Photo Essay: Carrots
Something extraordinary happened to me the summer before I entered the sixth grade. I didn’t recognize it as extraordinary then, and I don’t remember anyone else thinking much about it either. It was one of those quiet markers driven into the soil of a life, unnoticed at the time but obvious when viewed years later.
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The Story Behind Our Thanksgiving Turkey
Autumn has long been my favorite season. Late autumn, especially, carries a quiet beauty unlike any other time of year. The frantic work of spring and the abundance of summer gradually give way to harvest. Gardens empty. Fields grow still. Leaves loosen their grip on the trees and drift gently back to the earth from
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The Kitchen Garden
“Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent
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