by Kathryn Gardow | Sep 30, 2015 | Healthy Food, Local Food, Sustainable Communities
We are all foragers. We search, scavenge, and gather food habitually. My daughter comes home from school and automatically opens the refrigerator and says, “there is nothing to eat in here,” despite it being filled with loads of food. Going to the grocery...
by Kathryn Gardow | Aug 31, 2015 | Healthy Food, Local Food, Sustainable Communities
Summer brings my favorite foods. Succulent corn on the cob, pints upon pints of Hayton Farms strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries, flame-roasted Hatch peppers, and lettuces all bigger than my head. My 5,000 square foot city lot just isn’t big enough to...
by Kathryn Gardow | Jul 31, 2015 | Sustainable Communities
“I only talk to my uphill neighbor at the 4th of July parade. I wave to my neighbor across the street and the downhill lot is vacant,” divulged my work colleague. “My wife had a problem with the neighbors when she was growing up so says,...
by Kathryn Gardow | May 31, 2015 | Healthy Food, Local Food
Summer is here. Saturday, May 23rd, I bought my first flat of Skagit Valley’s fresh Hayton Farms organic strawberries. I can’t remember ever buying local strawberries this early. Some seasons, I’ve had to wait until the first week of July! Symphonic...
by Kathryn Gardow | Apr 29, 2015 | Agricultural Economic Development, Farmland Preservation, Local Food
Malting! As a kid, it meant malted milkshakes and Whoppers–malted milk covered in chocolate. Ugh! Whoppers were the rage in my Trick or Treat bag, but they tasted awful. Now I savor a malted drink–Hefeweizen–the German malted wheat beer of my...
