A friend has a bumper sticker that reads MONEY IS NOT VOTING. What exactly does that mean? I’ve never asked her, and I’m not sure if I actually agree with that statement.True, money is not voting, but in many ways, money and the ways we support or.
Fork & Spade: A community food digest for May
Ellie Viggiani, a volunteer with Grow Food Northampton, spreads mulch on one of the Giving Gardens at the community garden site off Spring street in Florence. Valley Grows Day 2021 is Wednesday, May 19, a collective fundraising effort among community-based food and land access and farming nonprofit organizations throughout western Massachusetts. Gazette file photo
Published: 5/14/2021 4:30:22 PM
One thing your Fork & Spade moderator loves about putting this column together is that while this monthly feature is always about food access and sustainability, there are so many different and innovative ways people are approaching these issues that there’s always something new and interesting to learn.
Published: 4/29/2021 12:24:22 PM
Back before the plague, I used to volunteer in my son’s first-grade class at Leeds Elementary School on Fridays. This was a strenuous proposition a roomful of high-spirited 6- and 7-year-olds bursting with end-of-the-week energy meant that I often went home and had to lie down for a while in a dark room.
The very best Fridays, however, were the ones when the Grow Food Kids program arrived with its cooking lesson cart, complete with kale and apples and knives for all. Then there was no question of trying to make kids sit on the rug or pay attention to the reading lesson on the smart screen; all the kids were automatically riveted by the prospect of making something edible, and learning something applied.