by Kathryn Gardow | Dec 27, 2015 | Agrihoods, Land Use Planning, Local Food
Fulton County, Georgia is best known as the home of Atlanta, the 9th most populous U.S. metropolian area and Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the most traveled U.S. airport. North of downtown Atlanta is continuous suburbs, countless dead-ends and...
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 | 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 | 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...
