by Kathryn Gardow | Apr 30, 2021 | Local Food, Sustainable Communities
Pacific Northwest larders of winter veggies and fruits are close to empty. With the advent of spring and the annual growing season, refilling pantries will begin anew. The thoughts, smells and sounds of spring are everywhere. Migratory birds fly across the skies...
by Kathryn Gardow | Feb 27, 2021 | Local Food, Sustainable Communities
I was born before trucking in out-of-season foods was the norm. Most of the year our usual nightly dinner veggie was frozen (not canned) beans, peas, or vegetable medley with meat and potatoes and the iceberg lettuce wedge. Mid-winter fresh produce included a plethora...
by Kathryn Gardow | May 14, 2019 | Healthy Food, Sustainable Communities
What are the “must-haves” in life versus the “want-to-haves?” What are the most basic needs? “Must-haves” are something critical for survival. Without them, life would cease. Food and drinking water are “must-haves.” With no food or water, nothing...
by Kathryn Gardow | Nov 30, 2018 | Local Food, Sustainable Communities
Farming seems so idyllic. Old McDonald, the proverbial song, is my first recollection of the quintessential farming dream. A happy song with joyful animals. Seared in my memory are daytrips to my Grandmother’s house to find the choicest Halloween pumpkin; the...
by Kathryn Gardow | Jul 31, 2017 | Land Use Planning, Sustainable Communities
I live in a great city-the Emerald City- Seattle, Washington. Living here 32 years is more than half my life. I started life as a New Englander, growing up in a Connecticut suburban town with a couple elementary school years in Buffalo, college in Schenectady,...
by Kathryn Gardow | Sep 30, 2016 | Local Food, Sustainable Communities
As parents conversed over coffee and donuts early Saturday morning excitedly anticipating the outcome of sorority rush week, I chatted with a Dad about his daughter leaving sunny southern California to come north to the University of Washington. Of course, we started...
