Category : Writing

An interview with Mischke Til Midnight! (CBS Minnesota)

An interview with Mischke Til Midnight! (CBS Minnesota)

It was a great talk, thank you so much Tom! November 14th, the Nite Show with Mischke

A visit to the Amish collective Path Valley Farms

A visit to the Amish collective Path Valley Farms

Last week I visited three of the 20 Amish farms that comprise the Path Valley Farms collective, serving nearly 60 DC restaurants. In this enchanting place food is grown by those who ride in buggies to serve the needs of customers who travel by jets. One gets the sense travelers seldom visit the 2-3 mile [...]

You can change what students eat! Celebrate the first National Farm to School Month!

You can change what students eat! Celebrate the first National Farm to School Month!

(In the interests of being a good lesson planner, I am going to outline the format of this story so you know what to expect. First I am going to share my personal experiences teaching in a school, then I am going to talk about our first National Farm to School Month, then I am [...]

We want you! (to read this press release!)

We want you! (to read this press release!)

Cancer helps young woman decide which voices in her head to listen to (Rhinebeck, NY) —‘I am in Tijuana, and I want you to tell me everything is going to be okay. I want you to tell me chemotherapy is the work of the corporate devil.’ As she watched a disheveled man with a stain on [...]

Mastering my mindset…(requires constant vigilance)

Mastering my mindset…(requires constant vigilance)

A dear friend of mine wrote to me over a year ago an email about my book – and I knew it was important. I would read it and think of what it meant and read it again. I wrote out her email onto two post it notes, now folded and wrinkled. Tape is frayed [...]