by Kathryn Gardow | Aug 22, 2023 | Agrihoods, Farmland Preservation
Land and how people use land is my passion. As I a pre-teen, I grew my first crop–green bush beans–during a sultry Connecticut summer. Eating food from my garden always puts a big smile on my face. Coming from an engineering lineage, my Dad suggested...
by Kathryn Gardow | Jul 27, 2021 | Farmland Preservation, Rural Economy
A friend told me she wants to buy a farm. She is a suburban gal with an undergraduate agricultural degree, so has the passion. Her career wasn’t agriculture though, it was high tech. Now retired, she is ready to launch that Third Act, the next adventure, the...
by Kathryn Gardow | Mar 31, 2016 | Agrihoods, Farmland Preservation, Land Use Planning
The first and only time I visited Phoenix was twenty-five years ago. All I remembered from that trip were endless strip malls, six-lane arterials, lots of double left-turn lanes, roads filled with cars, and cascading water fountains. The bubbling fountains at the...
by Kathryn Gardow | Nov 29, 2015 | Agrihoods, Farmland Preservation, Local Food
“I live next to a farm!” This can be said with enthusiasm and excitement or disappointment and disgust. Living next to a farm can be a good or a bad thing, depending on your point of view. City folks want to move to the country, as they see it as...
by Kathryn Gardow | Oct 31, 2015 | Farmland Preservation, Land Use Planning, Local Food
Just after the I-5 Skagit River bridge collapsed 2-1/2 years ago, I wrote a blog entitled Food & Bridges on how food and bridges are vital to a highly functioning society and neither gets the respect they deserve. We take the basic necessities of daily living,...
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...
